[R] R command prompt newline treatment

[Jeff Newmiller]

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 using 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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