I am pretty sure this is not an R issue (so it is off-topic here)... it
sounds like the kind of misconfiguration that was common back when there
were dozens of competing terminal manufacturers and the solution was to
configure your Linux TERM variable and/or terminfo database to match up
with your terminal emulator program (e.g. [1]). With modem autocofiguration
on the OS side it may be as simple as changing your terminal emulator
settings and logging in again... or not.
[1] https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO-7.html
On November 5, 2018 1:53:42 PM PST, Ben <bfcrap at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all -
I?m seeing a weird issue. I?m running R v3.3.2 on CentOS 7 Linux. The
behavior of the command prompt when entering very long commands on a
single
line is strange compared to my use in older versions. Specifically,
after
hitting enter, the prompt continues on the line immediately after the
previous prompt. In other words, it skips back up past all of the
previous
input on that one wrapped line.
One way to see it clearly is to force it to display many newline
characters
with ctrl-v ctrl-j and then hit enter. In bash and my earlier R
console,
the new prompt is right at the end of the newline sequence, but in the
new
versions the prompt jumps back up to the line after the previous
prompt.
If anyone has ideas on whats going on, I?d love to hear them! Thanks,
Ben
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