Bash question hard to formulate

[Esteban L <esteban@little-beak.com>]

Hello,

I use terminal window/bash quite a bit, and have a quirky behavior on
Debian, at least not on Mac OS terminal window. I think it's just a
default issue, that can be altered -- as I had the exact same problem
years ago -- that I was able to resolve, which I again turns up. I
forgot the solution, since it was so simple.

The question is hard for me to formulate, so I will just describe
everything, and maybe someone can help?

What happens:

I use terminal (in a game or even with ping for simplicity):

I can type into the terminal.

I can backspace - as expected.

However, if i receive new data - my typed text is still in the buffer,
but is not "echo'd" to a new line. This is more or less OK, UNLESS I
need to backspace and clear some text. I just can't tell how far I have
backspaced, since the line is not echoed.

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.


Any Bash experts able to lend a hand?

Last time I had this issue, I remember I had to go into .bashrc and
add/change something. I just don't know what it was.


Thanks.