On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 12:26:32PM +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote: > My issue is: if I am typing to terminal, while receiving data, and I > backspace -- I just don't know how far I have backspaced, I have to guess.
What you want to do is redraw the current command. The easiest way to do this is to press Ctrl-L. (Or if you're in vi mode, ESC Ctrl-L, and then you'll need to go back to command mode.) This clears the whole screen, though. So if there's information you need to preserve, take that into account. Of course, another approach would be to stop doing whatever you're doing that causes you to "receive data" while you're typing in an interactive shell. This might be a workflow issue of some kind. Maybe you're running some sort of background job that spews noise. Maybe you simply need to redirect that background job's output to a file. Or maybe you want to run the noisy background job as a foreground job in a separate terminal (or a separate "tab", or a separate "virtual terminal" within screen or tmux, etc.).
