My Arch Linux laptop is creating some strange output when using bash. It puts spaces between characters and stretches out files names. I’ve tried to remove/reinstall bash-completion but nothing changed. Does anyone know any solution or workaround for this problem?
The terminal expects to use a monospace font, but you have used a proportional font. So when the cursor moves right or left, it moves by a fixed amount each time, rather than proprtionally based on whatever character was on the screen. Thus your columns are not lined up and moving backward ends up in the wrong place.
To fix the problem, change the terminal font to a monospaced font.
