When using -J and there's a ssh password prompt (or other prompt eg ssh host key), the region-based display gets messed up by the ssh output. This is a minor display glitch; it's still fairly clear what git-annex is doing. The root problem is that the regional display code does not know the absolute cursor position. All cursor movement is relative. So when ssh display moves the cursor, all subsequent output goes to the wrong place. ansi-terminal has absolute cursor movement, but no way to query position. Some approaches to fix it: 1. Allocate a slave pty and run ssh in there, forwarding IO from the slave pty to the master pty. The ssh output is then added to the region that it's prompting for the password for. Unix-specific and somewhat heavyweight solution. 2. Set position to eg 0,0 when starting git-annex, and then the absolute position can be calculated, and after ssh runs it can reset the cursor to the previous position. Would make -J take over the whole screen even if it's only transferring 1 file. 3. Clear all regions before running the ssh command that can prompt, (moving the cursor to the start of the first region), and redraw them when it's done. So the ssh output would appear above the redrawn regions. This would cause some flicker in the common case where ssh does not have any output. The N regions would display briefly, then be cleared, then be redrawn. It might flicker multiple times, when multiple different hosts are being accessed. One way to avoid the flicker would be to first try to ssh with password prompting disabled, and only if that fails do regions need to be cleared for the ssh that will prompt. Also, since we then know ssh will prompt, we can display the hostname as context for the "Password:" prompt it uses. Needs concurrent-output 1.8.0 4. Find a way to add cursor position querying to ansi-terminal. Can it be done portably? See --[[Joey]] > [[fixed|done]] using option #3. --[[Joey]]