Re: Bash question hard to formulate

2020-08-03 Thread David Wright
On Mon 03 Aug 2020 at 11:30:42 (+0200), Esteban L wrote: > 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

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

2020-08-03 Thread songbird
wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 12:47:32AM -0400, songbird wrote: >> ... >>=20 >> 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

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

2020-08-03 Thread Esteban L
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

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

2020-08-03 Thread tomas
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

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

2020-08-02 Thread songbird
... 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. songbird

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

2020-08-02 Thread David Wright
On Sun 02 Aug 2020 at 17:34:07 (+0200), Esteban L wrote: > > I use terminal window/bash quite a bit, and have a quirky behavior on > Debian, at least not on Mac OS terminal window. I think it's just a > default issue, that can be altered -- as I had the exact same problem > years ago -- that I

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

2020-08-02 Thread Esteban L
Thanks for the tip Andrei! I am not 100% sure it was .bashrc, it could have been some other config file, but I am pretty sure it was bash related. it is unfortunately on a long since gone system. As to my current system, I have just default settings. I have not altered anything. I have only

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

2020-08-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 aug 20, 17:34:07, Esteban L wrote: > > Last time I had this issue, I remember I had to go into .bashrc and > add/change something. I just don't know what it was. Could it be you changed .inputrc and not .bashrc? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

2020-08-02 Thread Esteban L
Ah now that I analyze the behavior on a MacOS, I see the thing is this: If I am typing text in, and receive new text, the cursor continues typing. UNLESS I backspace to the beginning of the (current) line, and then it echos the previously typed text. Thanks for the tip! I will try that out.

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

2020-08-02 Thread tomas
On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 05:34:07PM +0200, Esteban L wrote: > Hello, [...] > Maybe best description is: > > I am tying this senten > > > > ce, and it's fine...but i > > > > 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

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

2020-08-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-08-02 at 11:34, Esteban L wrote: > Hello, > > I use terminal window/bash quite a bit, and have a quirky behavior > on Debian, at least not on Mac OS terminal window. I think it's just > a default issue, that can be altered -- as I had the exact same > problem years ago -- that I was able

Bash question hard to formulate

2020-08-02 Thread Esteban L
Hello, I use terminal window/bash quite a bit, and have a quirky behavior on Debian, at least not on Mac OS terminal window. I think it's just a default issue, that can be altered -- as I had the exact same problem years ago -- that I was able to resolve, which I again turns up. I forgot the