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I'm migrating to a shiny new laptop (yay) unfortunately I've manually set up my iTerm to match the old machine, but something is not right (not yay).

I'm experiencing

  • using xterm-256color doesn't give the full colour set for say, vim.
  • applications like vim dont clear out of the scrollback when exited.
  • my ↖ home and ↘ end keys are completely broken and I can't seem to Google a solution
  • my ⌫ backspace key doesn't delete backwards, it adds a 'space' and prevents further input until ^C.

Here is my .zshrc and my .profile. I dont have an .inputrc.

Here are my keyboard settings for iTerm2:

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I'm fairly sure i've broken something between $TERM, iTerm2's keyboard settings and my .zshrc, but I'm simply not competent enough to debug it. As far as I can tell, my settings are identical to my old laptop, which works.

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It turns out that xterm-256color does not work correctly unless you have xcode installed.

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  • Apparently, the terminfo files for xterm-256color and several others are in the Xcode installer instead of the system installer for 10.6. You should find that in Mac OS X Lion 10.7 these files are installed with the system.
    – Chris Page
    Commented Aug 10, 2011 at 1:18

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