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		morsch on July 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix Tricks Any movement key will do the trick. I usually use cursor-right or the end key. It's so ingrained I had to actually do it in a shell to know what it was I did.

danielweber on July 3, 2014 [–]

ISTR pressing one of those keys would obliterate the part of my line where I was writing, putting in ^B characters.

I can't replicate it now on my test box; it works exactly the way you say it should. It may be a terminal issue; I'm currently on Windows using cygwin to ssh to Linux.

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