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31.0.50; Wrong char insertion in rxvt

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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: bzg <at> gnu.org, Seb Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer <at> inria.fr>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 78474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78474: 31.0.50; Wrong char insertion in rxvt
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:35:53 +0200

Robert Pluim, le lun. 21 juil. 2025 18:19:24 +0200, a ecrit:
> >>>>> On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:02:00 +0200, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault <at> gnu.org> said:
> 
>     Samuel> It is buggy on rxvt, as the very first mail of this whole thread talks
>     Samuel> about:
> 
>     Samuel> https://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/tmp/coucou.png
> 
>     Samuel> The cursor it two times too big.
> 
> Yet another reason to avoid rxvt *ducks*

Well, one thing is: I was unabled to find an actual reference on what
*exactly* \t is supposed to be doing for the terminal content. Notably,
run:

echo -e 'a\ta'

and copy/paste that text: do you expect the paste to be 'a\ta' or
'a       a' ? I have seen people request for the former.

Also, if you run:

echo -e 'a\t'

is there actually supposed to be some content to copy/paste on the right
of a?

Samuel

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