Peter Otten wrote:
Garland W. Binns wrote:
Could someone please tell me a common or semi-frequent scenario in which a
person would use a backspace escape sequence?
Does
$ python -c 'print "this is b\bbo\bol\bld\bd"' | less
qualify? If you are using (e. g.) Linux this technique is used to show some
text in boldface
Gah, that has got to be the ugliest hack in the universe.
I don't think that is guaranteed to work everywhere. less supports the \b
trick, but the Python interactive interpreter doesn't support it directly.
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Steven
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