GNU bug report logs - #78474
31.0.50; Wrong char insertion in rxvt

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Bastien Guerry <bzg <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 22:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 31.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault <at> gnu.org>
Cc: bzg <at> gnu.org, Sebastien.Hinderer <at> inria.fr, rpluim <at> gmail.com, 78474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#78474: 31.0.50; Wrong char insertion in rxvt
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:08:09 +0300

> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:25:05 +0200
> From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
> 	Seb Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer <at> inria.fr>, bzg <at> gnu.org,
> 	78474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > > Samuel> It's actually even slower on my box.
> > 
> > You benchmarked moving by one character. Moving by tabs can move in
> > multiples of 8 characters, so I doubt itʼs that cut and dried.
> 
> The case which actually poses problem is only that \t\b vs \e[C. Using
> tab without moving back with \b does not pose problem.

If that's the only problematic case, then disabling TABs as in the
proposed patch is not TRT.
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