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31.0.50; Wrong char insertion in rxvt

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault <at> gnu.org>
Cc: bzg <at> gnu.org, Sebastien.Hinderer <at> inria.fr, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 78474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#78474: 31.0.50; Wrong char insertion in rxvt
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:30:52 +0200

>>>>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:10:11 +0200, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault <at> gnu.org> said:

    Samuel> Eli Zaretskii, le mar. 22 juil. 2025 15:08:09 +0300, a ecrit:
    >> > 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.

    Samuel> I don't think I asked for this, and only confirmed that it's one way to
    Samuel> do it.

That was my misinterpretation of the request. Itʼs easy enough to
restrict the change to only affect the '\t\b' case, but weʼll have to
come up with a new name for the user option :-)

Robert
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