From: Cookie Rubster <lists@...>
Date: 2012-09-14T09:10:45+09:00
Subject: Re: \b not working?

Eek - thanks so much for your time, Matthew - appreciate it!

Hopefully someone else can chime in.

Matthew Kerwin wrote in post #1075926:
>> 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.  ;)

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