From: Matthew Kerwin <matthew@...>
Date: 2012-09-14T09:05:46+09:00
Subject: Re: \b not working?

> Matthew Kerwin wrote in post #1075924:
>> In short: it depends where you're printing it.
>>
>> Where are you running said script? (Which operating system, terminal
>> emulator, etc.?)

On 14 September 2012 09:46, Cookie Rubster <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply!
>
> I'm on a Mac, running Aptana Studio 3. Does that help?

I'm afraid it doesn't help me, since I'm not a Mac user.  From what I
can see (although it's hard to find any real information) Aptana
Studio seems to use the system's built-in terminal, and while I've
seen some comments on the OSX terminal not handling keyboard
backspace/delete propertly, all the proposed solutions imply that
actually printing a ^H / 0x08 / "\b" should work.

Hopefully someone else can help you.

By the way, your loop works fine in my Linux terminal.  ;)