Bug#738794: xterm: the right part of the window is not always erased
- To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
- Cc: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>, 738794@bugs.debian.org, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
- Subject: Bug#738794: xterm: the right part of the window is not always erased
- From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 05:30:21 -0400
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On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 03:40:54PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Control: found -1 324-1
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2014-02-16 20:55:46 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > (I've seen this, but not often enough to have a scenario where it can
> > be reproduced...)
>
> Perhaps you can reproduce it with the attached log file.
> This seems to be exactly the same problem.
>
> xterm -fn 6x13 -geometry 43x24 -hold -e cat debbug738794.log
>
> See the dot on the right at line 17 ("I enjoyed ... at his house").
I can see a dot :-)
My initial guess is that the missing glyphs on the line confuse xterm
(regarding the cursor position) and it displays the dot outside the vt100
window. That'll take some study.
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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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