I think that is the main thing. I am not typing return. I am typing in a sentence...As I receive new output to the terminal window, and I continue typing, my text stream just goes down a line. Which is fine, UNLESS I otherwise want to correct something, and backspacing doesn't word wrap back to the previously typed line. Had trouble sleeping =) trying to figure it out. I don't know if it's Bash related, inputrc, terminal, debian, or whatever. I was reading that perhaps setting the "auto left margin" to ON, would allow the cursor to wordwrap (in reverse) to the previous line. I have thought about using a different terminal window, but so far they all seem to exhibit the same behavior. I thought gnome-terminal was bloated, and had extra features compared to other sleeker versions - but alas, it also exhibits this behavior. Though, I admit, i am almost at my wits end. I assume everyone has this behavior from Debian? I only have default settings, on two boxes (Debian 9, and Debian 10), and the behavior is the same on both. EPP! I just realized, I have 4 Debians =D The behavior is the same on all of them. the main thing I want is, if I backspace into a sentence (as I am receiving output to the terminal window and that i have not CR'ed), that the incomplete sentence will re-show up on the active line, when I reach the beginning of the that line. I think this is one of those classic examples of "it's easy if you know how" =) But, if you don't, it's as hard as humanly possible. On 8/3/20 10:12 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 12:47:32AM -0400, songbird wrote: >> ... >> >> i'm not familiar with that problem but another tip >> which is helpful when dealing with a terminal that >> gets into a strange state is to press return then >> type in reset and press return again. > Typing return when you have already half-a-command line > (and are not sure what it is) is somewhat dangerous. > > That's OK, it can be a life style. Be sure to keep some > backups around, then :-) > > Cheers > -- t
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