Can't see what I'm typing in iterm2

Question

Periodically, I\'ll run rspec (though I don\'t know if its specific to that) and suddenly, I can\'t see what i\'m typing. I have to close that iterm2 window out and open a new

Answer 1

Clean up this and many other issues with stty sane.

Got this from a bit of Googling:

same as cread -ignbrk brkint -inlcr -igncr icrnl -iutf8 -ixoff -iuclc -ixany imaxbel opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke, all special characters to their default values.

Source: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/stty.htm

Answer 2

Typing "stty sane" Fixes this for me.