[ale] Xterm gets weird, caches chars until space or arrow

[Mike Harrison]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Mike Harrison wrote:
> It'll be working just fine, and then
> it starts caching my keystrokes. They
> appear as smaller letters, inverse video,
> but don't actually get sent to local or remote
> system until I type a [space] or use an arrow key.

Just figured it out.

On my desktop system I had played with SCIM

"Smart Common Input Method"

and a sticky shift key thought I was hitting "Shift-Space"
and enabling that mode..  Aaaargh!