I can confirm this behavior under 0.3 prerelease on windows. The following works however
julia> print("hello");print("\b\b\b\b\bworld!") world! I think this should be filed as an issue at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2014 10:35:09 UTC+2 schrieb RecentConvert: > > Julia Version 0.2.1 > > Commit e44b593* (2014-02-11 06:30 UTC) > > Platform Info: > > System: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32) > > Windows 7 > >