Julia Evans

Yesterday a program made my terminal’s cursor disappear! I was really surprised because programs so rarely mess up my terminal these days.

Normally my prompt looks like this:

But after running echo -e "\033[?25l" (the escape code for “make cursor invisible”), the cursor is gone, like this.

I just dealt with it by opening a new terminal tab, but you can also run reset or echo -e "\033[?25h". I don’t really like using reset because it sleeps for 1 second and I find it kind of annoying, I wish it ran instantly.