Long commands sometimes vanish on typing

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Long commands sometimes vanish on typing

Closed this issue 7 years ago · 3 comments

In both ZSH and BASH sometimes when I'm typing long instructions, the line of text may become invisible for some reason.

Answer 1 · 2017-08-28T23:01:34.000Z

I have noticed this as well. But if I maximize the shell window the problem disappears. Is that something to do with the colors and their interpretation in the shell emulator? I have tested it in Terminator and Konsole.

Answer 2 · 2017-08-29T08:35:00.000Z

I believe it has some connection to how the terminal emulators react to not having their "non-printing" characters added to the text. Simply I have not found a way to add \[ and \] (tput sgr0) to surround the colour codes (in ZSH they are {% and }%. Adding the ZSH ones make no difference to what I have observed. Some solid way of reproducing the issue would help.

Answer 3 · 2017-08-31T13:41:33.000Z

I think, for ZSH I have fixed these by adding in the non-printing characters. 6b7b13b

For BASH though, adding I am not able to figure out how to add them :(