Cursor/tab character display problem

[Gunnar Ritter]

<pcg( Marc)@goof(A.).(Lehmann )com> wrote:

> 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.

This is not just my vi. All derivatives of the original vi behave
that way. If you're suggesting that they have done it wrong for around
25 years, and that your bright idea about the width of the tab cursor
just brought that bug to light, that's nothing but laughable. Just make
the cursor appear as it appears with any other sane terminal too. The
question is how well a modern terminal emulator can work with existing
applications. It is not what has to be changed in existing applications
in order to let them work with your terminal emulator.

> > > 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...

What did you expect?

	Gunnar