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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