Cursor/tab character display problem

[( Marc A. Lehmann )]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 03:09:26AM +0100, Gunnar Ritter <Gunnar.Ritter at pluto.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> > Hmm.. and your point being?
> 
> The cursor should occupy one single character cell as usual.

And why? The tab character is wider than a single character cell.

> another point of view, the cursor should look the same after erasing
> a tab as it was looking before the tab was typed.

If the tab gets erases, rxvt-unicode will not display a wide cursor (or
you hit a bug). Are you sure the tab character got erases?

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 03:17:58AM +0100, Gunnar Ritter <Gunnar.Ritter at pluto.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> when a double-width character is printed in insert mode, characters
> that follow are not shifted for enough positions to the left. That
> is, when the command
> 
> printf '%b\n' '0123456789\b\b\b\b\b\033[4h＠\033[4l'

Thanks for the report, is fixed in CVS!

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