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In order to implement a console-like output, I print a prompt to the beginning of a line. When an output comes from the server, I need to be able to remove the prompt. I thought that I'd use \b sequence for that, which is handled until the buffer is written to the output area. But after it's written, it's ignored. Can it be implemented to remove the existing characters until it reaches the beginning of the line? IMHO it's fine to write it to storage as it is and just delete the characters from the line.
It's actually a defect that \b is not interpreted. It's not possible to e.g. remove a prompt when further output comes.
Fixed in http://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/rev/08fd302399c9. Thank you for reporting, Martin.
Integrated into 'main-silver', will be available in build *201308270001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/rev/08fd302399c9 User: Jaroslav Havlin <jhavlin@netbeans.org> Log: #228051: Handle \b on unfinished lines