Stuck in insert mode (overwrite mode) in Tmux

[Ariel Balter]

I'm doing something accidentally that makes me stuck in insert mode
while in tmux. I have no idea what I'm doing or how to set it back.
Outside of tmux not a problem.

Pressing the insert key does not fix it.

Tried in various ssh clients: bitvise, putty, firessh. The problem is
localized to a particular tmux session. If I start a new session, no
problem. And the problem is in all panes of the particular session.

Or, could it be a server issue?

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[Nicholas Marriott]

Hi

What insert mode? In what program?

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[Ariel Balter]

Any program. Even the command prompt. For instance, I can type aaaaa,
back-arrow to the beginning, type bbbbb, and it writes of the a's. Like
the behavior you get when you press the insert key.

[Nicholas Marriott]

Just one tmux window or all? What if you attach in a new terminal? What if you restart tmux?

[Ariel Balter]

I only use one window at a time, but multiple sessions. It happens only after I've used the session a bit, say 20 minutes. It does not affect other sessions until I've used them for a while as well. It especially happens when I'm using multiple panes. If I start a new session it does not start until I've used it.

[Ariel Balter]

I've isolated the problem some more. It starts when I use emacs, and mostly when I have more than one pane. Typically, this is what happens:

tmux new-session -s test
C-%
emacs test.txt

type some stuff
go back to beginning of line
type some more and it overwrites
exit emacs
now overwrites at command prompt as well

My terminal is xterm-256color. I just tried a number of others to see if that changed anything, but it didn't.

On 1/14/2016 4:42 AM, Nicholas Marriott wrote:

[Nicholas Marriott]

If your TERM is xterm-* inside tmux then that is wrong.

[Ariel Balter]

What terminal should I be using in tmux? It's nice to have color.

[Ariel Balter]

So, this is interesting--I deleted my .emacs file and .emacs.d directory (both empty) and now I'm not having the problem any more.

On 1/14/2016 11:33 AM, Nicholas Marriott wrote: