bash history buffer output mangled after repeated up-arrow

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On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 02:38:28PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>On 04/25/2018 01:10 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>>> Any ideas?
>> It doesn't happen to me.
>>
>> Maybe you've got something weird in your .profile?
>
>Agreed. Remove your .bash_history, .profile and .bashrc files temporarily and see if the
>problem changes or goes away.

hm, why didn't I think of that?! lol ok, thanks, am trying this.

I thought I might have something broken in ttys or xterm. Haven't
noticed it yet (but that doesn't mean it wasn't happening, just that I
didn't notice) in a non-X console. It does happen in screen.

thanks,
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J.