GNU bug report logs - #57728
29.0.50; Emacs writes wrong glyph at the bottom-right corner of text terminals

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Akib Azmain Turja <akib <at> disroot.org>

Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 10:37:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Akib Azmain Turja <akib <at> disroot.org>
Cc: 57728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57728: 29.0.50; Emacs writes wrong glyph at the bottom-right corner of text terminals
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:36:44 +0300
> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib <at> disroot.org>
> Cc: 57728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:03:04 +0600
> 
> > Let me turn the table and ask you: why do you think that '\' is not
> > the usual continuation glyph that Emacs always produces when the width
> > of a screen line on a TTY frame is exceeded?
> >
> >
> >
> 
> OK, OK.  This title is misleading.  Showing the continuation glyph is
> not wrong, but it is unexpected, because Emacs doesn't write to the
> bottom-right corner.

I've seen these continuation glyphs on every TTY display where I ever
used Emacs, so I'd consider it a surprise, if not a bug, that on some
TTYs those continuation glyphs were absent.  They should be there to
indicate to the user that the line is continued.

> Perhaps I don't have the ability to express the problem in character, so
> I'm trying to pixel.  Can you please spend some seven and half minutes
> to watch the bug in the video I attached?

Sorry, I cannot want videos of this format.




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