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  Re: Bash question hard to formulate <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-08-02 18:10 +0200

#225743 — Re: Bash question hard to formulate

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On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 05:34:07PM +0200, Esteban L wrote:
> Hello,

[...]

> Maybe best description is:
> 
> I am tying this senten
> 
> <receive new input here from the terminal>
> 
> ce, and it's fine...but i
> 
> <receive new input>
> 
> I backspace now, as I want to replace the above line "and it's fine" and
> what comes after it to change it to "it's not fine"
> 
> 
> So, best description is, if i backspace upon receiving new data, I
> cannot see the line that I was typing.

Apart from The Wanderer's good suggestion, there's always CTRL-L, which
redisplays the typed-line-so-far clearing out everything else (this may
be desired or not).

This will work in other (terminal-ish) contexts, like vi(m) or more/less,
cleaning up when the terminal and the program behind it get confused.

Cheers
-- t

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