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31.0.50; Wrong char insertion in rxvt

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From: Seb Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer <at> inria.fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: bzg <at> gnu.org, 78474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com,
 samuel.thibault <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78474: 31.0.50; Wrong char insertion in rxvt
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:05:14 +0200

Eli Zaretskii (2025/07/22 18:47 +0300):
> Btw, let me make sure I understand correctly: is screen-reading
> software affected by this only on those two kinds of terminals (rxvt
> and vte), where \t\b produces wrong output?

I am not completely sure and would rather let Samuel complete here. What
I know isthat libvte is used for several terminals so I expect all of
them to  be affected.

> If only those two terminals are affected, both in the effect of the
> cursor motion and what that does to screen readers, then we could
> disable the \t\b sequence only for those two terminals.  Emacs can
> look at the name of the terminal to decide what to do.

Would that be ssh-proof? Andwhat about running screen or tmux in such a
terminal?

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