On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 09:11:01AM +0200, n952162 wrote: > Please disregard that ... there's something there, but I haven't > distilled it yet. > > On 5/4/22 9:06 AM, n952162 wrote: > > In vi mode > > > > if you enter, .e.g. 2f) (put the cursur on the second following > > occurance of a right paren), it works, I think, "virtually", but the > > displayed line is all garbled. You can keep editting and create a > > correct command, but only blindly.
The most likely cause of garbled/moving text in your shell input is a prompt that has terminal escape sequences (or other non-printing characters) which are not correctly protected by \[ \] . https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/053
