The only two applications I've been able to reproduce the issue with are tail
and cat
. If I tail -f log/development.log
or any file for that matter, and press CTRL-C to quit, when I type additional commands there is no keyboard echo to the screen. If I hit enter, the commands are run and they generate output, but still keyboard echo is broken.
An interesting tidbit is that I have been able to restore keyboard echo a few different ways:
1) stty echo
2) irb
running either of those commands will restore keyboard echo until one of the offending commands is exited with CTRL-C again.
I have tried setting my terminal emulation to rxvt and xterm-color, changing this does not seem to make a difference.
Best Answer
To reset your terminal use the
reset
command.I don't understand why
tail
andcat
are causing this problem since they shouldn't be doing anything to affect the terminal's line settings. Are you using Terminal.app or another terminal? Are you using Bash or another shell? Are you runningscreen
? Do you have anything else that may be using curses or doing some other screen manipulation? Do you have atrap
set for Ctrl-C?