Bizarre terminal behavior
Patton Echols
p.echols at comcast.net
Thu Dec 8 08:37:02 UTC 2011
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 at mycroft:~$
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