Zsh and interactive commands.

Question

I'm having a strange issue with zsh. I run it as my login shell, but when I run interactive commands within it in Terminator (like pacman, or yaourt), special keys and keycombos like Enter and Ctrl-C stop working, and just output text (^M for Enter, ^C for Ctrl-C). I read about this being a problem with certain programs changing the state of the shell and not changing it back, and in fact I can fix this temporarily by running
reset && ttyctl -f
but the problem returns with every new instance of Terminator I launch.
How can I make this fix persistent? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

.zshrc:
# The following lines were added by compinstall
zstyle ':completion:*' completer _expand _complete _ignored _approximate
zstyle ':completion:*' completions 1
zstyle ':completion:*' expand suffix
zstyle ':completion:*' format 'Autocompletion (%d)'
zstyle ':completion:*' glob 1
zstyle ':completion:*' group-name ''
zstyle ':completion:*' insert-unambiguous true
zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ''
zstyle ':completion:*' list-prompt %SAt %p: Hit TAB for more, or the character to insert%s
zstyle ':completion:*' list-suffixes true
zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list '+' '+m:{[:lower:][:upper:]}={[:upper:][:lower:]}' 'r:|[._-]=** r:|=**' 'l:|=* r:|=*'
zstyle ':completion:*' max-errors 3
zstyle ':completion:*' menu select=1
zstyle ':completion:*' original true
zstyle ':completion:*' preserve-prefix '//[^/]##/'
zstyle ':completion:*' prompt 'Suggestions:'
zstyle ':completion:*' select-prompt %SScrolling active: current selection at %p%s
zstyle ':completion:*' substitute 1
zstyle ':completion:*' verbose true
zstyle :compinstall filename '/home/arachnid92/.zshrc'
autoload -Uz compinit
compinit
# End of lines added by compinstall
# Lines configured by zsh-newuser-install
HISTFILE=~/.histfile
HISTSIZE=1000
SAVEHIST=1000
setopt autocd beep extendedglob
unsetopt appendhistory
bindkey -e
# End of lines configured by zsh-newuser-install
alias systemctl='sudo systemctl'
alias pacman='sudo pacman'
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias shutdown='shutdown -hP -t sec now'
alias anakena='ssh [email protected]'
alias c_compile='gcc -Wall -pedantic -std=c99'
export EDITOR="vim"
setopt completealiases
#Command not found
[ -r /etc/profile.d/cnf.sh ] && . /etc/profile.d/cnf.sh
#Keys
# create a zkbd compatible hash;
# to add other keys to this hash, see: man 5 terminfo
typeset -A key
key[Home]=${terminfo[khome]}
key[End]=${terminfo[kend]}
key[Insert]=${terminfo[kich1]}
key[Delete]=${terminfo[kdch1]}
key[Up]=${terminfo[kcuu1]}
key[Down]=${terminfo[kcud1]}
key[Left]=${terminfo[kcub1]}
key[Right]=${terminfo[kcuf1]}
key[PageUp]=${terminfo[kpp]}
key[PageDown]=${terminfo[knp]}
# setup key accordingly
[[ -n "${key[Home]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[Home]}" beginning-of-line
[[ -n "${key[End]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[End]}" end-of-line
[[ -n "${key[Insert]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[Insert]}" overwrite-mode
[[ -n "${key[Delete]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[Delete]}" delete-char
[[ -n "${key[Up]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[Up]}" up-line-or-history
[[ -n "${key[Down]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[Down]}" down-line-or-history
[[ -n "${key[Left]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[Left]}" backward-char
[[ -n "${key[Right]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[Right]}" forward-char
# Finally, make sure the terminal is in application mode, when zle is
# active. Only then are the values from $terminfo valid.
if (( ${+terminfo[smkx]} )) && (( ${+terminfo[rmkx]} )); then
function zle-line-init () {
printf '%s' "${terminfo[smkx]}"
function zle-line-finish () {
printf '%s' "${terminfo[rmkx]}"
zle -N zle-line-init
zle -N zle-line-finish
fi
#PATH
PATH="$HOME/android-sdk-linux/build-tools:$HOME/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools:$HOME/android-sdk-linux/tools:$PATH"
#PROMPT
autoload -U promptinit
promptinit
autoload -U colors && colors
PROMPT="%{$fg_no_bold[magenta]%}%B%n %{$fg[green]%}%#>%{$reset_color%}%b "
RPROMPT="%{$fg[yellow]%}[%{$fg[cyan]%}%~%{$fg[yellow]%}]%{$reset_color%}"
I have no other Zsh related config files in my home directory though.