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`crontab -e` "ruins" terminal

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After running crontab -e, My terminal starts acting strange, where characters aren't printed in the correct position. Starting and exiting an ncurses application (like vim and nano) doesn't help, nor does reset fix it either, so I have to restart my terminal emulator. It appears to have the same symptoms as force quitting an ncurses application. How do I fix this problem? **Edit:** Screenshot: enter image description here **Environment** * I my $TERM variable is set to xterm * I use uxterm as my emulator * crontab uses vim as its editor. **Edit:** On the first answer, I noticed that it still persists with xonsh, even though *it gets fixed when I type reset with bash or zsh. So, **it must be some issue with xonsh.**
Asked by Nolan Akash (383 rep)
Feb 20, 2017, 05:53 PM
Last activity: Sep 11, 2022, 08:35 AM