On 8 December 2011 10:37, Patton Echols <p.echols@comcast.net> wrote:
Greetings all,
Tonight I opened a terminal session and used [ctrl]+r to search a prior command. When I keyed the first letter, the terminal window was filled with the characters below. I had to [ctrl]+c to return to normal usage. Any thoughts?
Oh, 10.4, on an asus netbook
Here is the characters copied and pasted from the terminal window:
patton@mycroft:~$
(reverse-i-search)`a': �^P�<��(�̤�{9]��xmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� xxmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� � xxmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� xxmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� xxmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� � xxmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� xxmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� xxmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� � xxmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� xxmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� xxmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� � xxmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� xxmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� xxmh�^Ni���Q^Q@}� �*
<snip>Was the last command to edit (with vi, say) a binary file?*
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12-08-2011, 07:37 AM
Patton Echols
Bizarre terminal behavior
Greetings all,
Tonight I opened a terminal session and used [ctrl]+r to search a prior
command. When I keyed the first letter, the terminal window was filled
with the characters below. I had to [ctrl]+c to return to normal usage.
Any thoughts?
Oh, 10.4, on an asus netbook
Here is the characters copied and pasted from the terminal window: