does anyone else ever get this? i think it only occurs when the line of text i'm typing gets longer than the orginal width of the terminal window after i've resized it, and i think also only happens when i use tab top autocomplete... so what actaully happens is that each time i type an extra character (even including delete and arrow keys) the whole line moves back up one and looks crap. the repeated line in the quote is the second half of a wrapped line that doesn't even go up to the end of a terminal. i've had this on rxvt, eterm and gnome-terminal on a number of systems (I think) and certainly different shells if that could possibly be casuign it, which i don't think it is... any ideas?

*COUGH*

ha ha ha ha ha, that sure is a good time to cough, a week after your post had originally sunk. ha ha ha ha.

Well, at work if we leave the terminals (not running linux or win, just some Military Hospital OS) on a particular prompt, they will continue to do something similar to that. But instead of just removing a letter at a time, it will simply paste the command line infront of the older one, gives a similar 'tiled' look. It's just a due to the timeout settings here though.

Looks like a bigger-than-just-the-software bug though, like an OS bug.