FAQ

What are all those OCOCOCO or ODODODO that appear on the screen?

These are the terminal sequences that MisTTY sends to a program to move the cursor left or right. If you see these printed on the terminal, it means that the program that’s currently controlling the terminal doesn’t support these.

In such situation, you can:

• Only type self-inserting characters and DEL.

• Press C-c C-q or M-x mistty-send-key-sequence to send what you type directly to the terminal until you turn it off with C-g.

• Write a regexp that identifies the situation and add it to M-x customize-option mistty-forbid-edit-regexps.

See the section Terminal vs. Scrollback for more details.

Why is the cursor jumping around when I move it?

MisTTY jumps over spaces which just “aren’t there”, such as the spaces between the command and the right prompt, spaces added by fish for indentation in multi-line prompts.

If it doesn’t work with your shell or setup, or if you find it confusing, type M-x customize-option mistty-skip-empty-spaces to turn it off.

What’s with the purple line?

This line indicates the region of the buffer that works as a terminal, meaning that it is not fully editable and that some shortcuts, such as TAB are sent directly to the program controlling the terminal.

This is covered in depth in the section Terminal vs. Scrollback.

If you just don’t want to see that line, turn it off with M-x customize-option mistty-fring-enabled