GHCi: first letter of input replaced with 'g'

[Ben Rudiak-Gould]

(I'm not subscribed to this mailing list.)

This is a bizarre problem that's been randomly biting me for ages, but I 
just recently figured out how to reliably reproduce it.

Steps to reproduce:

    1. Install GHC 6.2.2 for Win32 from the MSI file at haskell.org. 
(Older versions also exhibit the bug.)
    2. Start GHCi from the command line with no options. While it's 
loading (before the Prelude> prompt appears), press the letter 'p' on 
the keyboard.
    3. After the prompt appears, press the 'i' and Enter keys.
    4. Instead of "3.141592653589793", GHCi reports "Variable not in 
scope: `gi'".

The character that gets munged is always the first character of the 
input line, and it always gets replaced with the letter g, regardless of 
what it was initially. It's not visibly munged: that is, the interaction 
looks like

    Prelude> pi

    <interactive>:1: Variable not in scope: `gi'

The same problem appears if I press both 'p' and 'i' before the prompt 
appears, and Enter after. But it does not appear if I press all three 
keys before the prompt appears, or all three after. (I told you it was 
weird.)

I seem to remember that using :r or :l also triggers the bug on the next 
input, but I haven't tested that recently.

I've encountered this problem on at least two different machines, at 
least two versions of NT (Win2K and WinXP), and many versions of GHC.

-- Ben