Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
>> I'm curious also what is your prevailing setting
>> of TERM?
> I use zsh, with a fairly customized setup. $TERM is "xterm-256color"
> in the affected shell. (I have a feeling that this has something to do
> with my amazing technicolor terminal.)
Hmm. If you set it to plain "xterm", does the test pass?
regards, tom lane