Cursor/tab character display problem

[( Marc A. Lehmann )]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:20:09PM +0100, Gunnar Ritter <Gunnar.Ritter at pluto.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> So making the cursor large might be acceptable if the terminal could do
> it consistently, but it seems it cannot.

The terminal can and does do it consistenly. In this case it's the
application (your vi) that doesn't use tabs consistently.

> > 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?
> 
> Yes, of course. Just invoke 'cat', type a few tabs, erase them again and
> watch the fun.

Which of course is not an answer to my question...

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