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Re: term question



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Ken Weingold wrote:

> Sorry if this is not the most appropriate forum for this, but I have a
> question about terminal setting on my Debian system.  Default term
> setting was vt100.  Everything was fine, but in top, when I would hit
> 'u' to limit the user processes, the user prompt would look like this:
>
> $<5>$<3>$<2>$<2>Which User (Blank for All): $<2>
>
> I tried changing the term to linux and that top user prompt looked
> like it should.  But, with the linux term, in tcsh, where it was fine
> with term vt100, when I hit the up arrow and then ctrl-u to clear the
> command line, nothing clears (and hitting backspace does nothing), yet
> the shell thinks it did since hitting enter just gives another prompt,
> not what was on the command line.
>
> Any ideas what's going on?  I'm not exactly sure with this where to
> look.  Thanks.
>
> -Ken
>
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