My text in terminal turns invisible after typing rspec - why?

[Tinmanic]

After I run rspec several times in my Mac's Terminal by typing "rspec", I can no longer see the text I'm typing. In order to see the text again, I have to either open a new Terminal window or type "stty echo".

Why does the text turn invisible, and how can I make it stop doing that?

[Myron Marston]

I've never seen this behavior from RSpec (and have never heard a user report it before).  RSpec doesn't do anything special with the terminal, either.  Perhaps it has to do with something with your environment?  You might try launching a terminal session with a stock bash profile and see if the problem goes away -- if so, it would point to something in your bash profile causing the problem.

HTH,

Myron

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Tinmanic <jeffs...@gmail.com> wrote:

After I run rspec several times in my Mac's Terminal by typing "rspec", I can no longer see the text I'm typing. In order to see the text again, I have to either open a new Terminal window or type "stty echo".

Why does the text turn invisible, and how can I make it stop doing that?

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[Tinmanic]

Thanks, how do I do that? I don't want to delete everything in my existing bash profile.

Also - what is a stock bash profile?

[Xavier Shay]

 

 

 

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015, at 03:00 AM, Tinmanic wrote:

Thanks, how do I do that? I don't want to delete everything in my existing bash profile.

mv ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_profile.old

 

to revert, move it back

 

 

Also - what is a stock bash profile?

what you get when you don't provide a custom one, per above.

 

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[Tinmanic]

Original poster here. I finally figured out the problem. Whenever I was using binding.pry, I was exiting using CTRL-C. That's what caused the problem. When I exit the normal way, by typing "exit!", I don't have this issue. I'll do that from now on.