>>>>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 11:20:38 +0200, Tilman Schmidt said:
> 
> This has been discussed here in the past, but never got to a real
> conclusion:
> 
> The display behaviour of line editing in bconsole is very dependent
> on the terminal emulation it's running in. Some work fine, for example
> PuTTY, while others, like the Linux console, are completely unusable.
> A special case is the gnome-terminal which is usable in full screen
> but not in a normal window. I tried to influence the behaviour through
> the TERM environment variable but that seems to be ignored completely.
> Not even "export TERM=3Ddumb" made a difference.
> 
> On closer observation it appears that bconsole ist doing mightily
> complicated things with terminal control sequences, scrolling up and
> down and pushing the cursor around when all I want to do is type or
> erase a character. Somewhere in this elaborate cursor dance an
> extraneous line feed or scroll up slips in, and everything that
> follows goes to the wrong place.
> 
> I don't know the reason for that elaborate way of controlling the
> terminal, but personally I would prefer the text console to be kept
> as simple as possible so that it "just works" in most setups,
> regardless of buggy ANSI emulations.

Are you using Bacula's conio package?  If so, you could try recompiling with
configure --disable-conio, which will make it use readline if that is
available.

__Martin

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