It's hard for me to describe, so here is an example of I am looking to emulate (this is from a mac).
https://cloud.little-beak.com/s/KxpjEHJ5RTEYZmS On debian, I have tried many different terminal emulators, and all the visible options to get this type of behavior, but have failed. =( On 30/08/2021 14:41, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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.). >