I have noticed this bug when developing my flash application on a windows platform. If typing text in to a text box in a Flash swf running in Safari 5 browser on Windows then press backspace the br...

I just installed the 64-bit zipped version for Windows of gvim on my new machine at work, and I changed some settings to make it compatible with Visual Studio 2010. Now the backspace key doesn't w...

My program (which happens to be in Perl, though I don't think this question is Perl-specific) outputs status messages at one point in the program of the form Progress: x/yy where x and yy are a num...

Working on Java in a Windows-run computer lab. System.out.print ("Hello!"); System.out.print ("\b"); Prints Hello![] Where [] is a box, so as to signify a character the font doesn't support...

I want to make a program that forces it's user to input text but doesn't allow him to erase any of it, what's a simple way of doing it in C? The only thing I've got is (c = getchar()) != EOF &...

I wonder why backspace character in common Linux terminals does not actually erase the characters, when printed (which normally works when typed).. This works as expected: $ echo -e "abc\b\b\bxyz...