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MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

[solved] Cannot move cursor within nano in a terminal

I have a feeling the answer to this may make me look really stupid (a not unusal state for me) but I honestly don't have a clue where else to look for an answer.  The topic heading sums up the issue well:  When using nano inside of a terminal window I can't move the cursor with the arrow keys.  I don't have gpm enabled so I can't use the mouse either but that seems like an irrelevant idea. 

I can move my cursor just fine when on the console with nano and root's cursor in a terminal or console is fine.  I can't find a damn thing in my home directory that may point to a cultprit.  This behaviour started up suddenly a week ago.  The fact that nano works perfectly as root and on a console (under my user account) says that something in my home directory.  Unfortunately I can't find it...whatever it is!

My .bashrc and .xinitrc are boringly simple and don't reference nano.  I have a /etc/nanorc which I've not touched in forever.  Help always appreciated!  :)

TIA.

edit:  Somehow this issue resolved itself and the only thing I can think of that is different today is that I updated a bunch of QT files.  It sounds weird but the updates are what may have fixed this.  And, as predicted, I feel like an idiot.

Last edited by MoonSwan (2014-06-26 02:43:52)