Subject: bug#78474: 31.0.50; Wrong char insertion in rxvt

From: Samuel Thibault <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:54:55 +0200

Eli Zaretskii, le jeu. 24 juil. 2025 10:44:21 +0300, a ecrit:
> > Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:14:46 +0200
> > From: Samuel Thibault <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
> > 	[email-masked], [email-masked]
> > 
> > (gnome-terminal is libvte-based, so it's the same as mate-terminal)
> 
> Btw, any reason why libvte works as it does?

AIUI that's because people have requested that when printing 'a\ta' ,
copy/paste would reproduce the tab.

> Are there any downsides to what xterm does with \t\b that justify the
> decision of libvte to work differently?

Yes, cat-ing files and copy/pasting them doesn't get "the same output".

Again, the question boils down to whether \t is considered by users as
only a cursor movement thing, or content.

Samuel