Thanks. You are, of course, right. I'm a Windows refugee in the process 
of moving to Kubuntu, and I have little experience with the console, so 
I overlooked this obvious fact about having to backspace. Ooops. So, GUI 
it is. Onward!

Michael Linfield wrote:
> Tom Cloyd wrote:
>> A beginner question for sure, but one on which I'm stuck: I'm trying to
>> determine if it's possible, by any means whatsoever, to display a line
>> of text on the console and allow the user to edit it, before pressing
>> Enter to cause it to be read back in. As far as I can tell, this is only
>> possible in a GUI display object. Before I move in that direction I
>> thought I'd check to see if I've missed anything.
>> 
>> Thanks for any help anyone has.
>> 
>> t.
> 
> I dont quite understand why you would in fact want to have a line of 
> text that can be edited in a console...They would have to backspace to 
> change anything which would defeat the purpose. A GUI would be the way 
> to go in this case, and if u need help with that just say so.  :)

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