Cursor/tab character display problem

[Gunnar Ritter]

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

> > > > > 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?
>
> An answer to my question. A discussion. Communication.

My answer was 'yes'. You even quoted it above. I even gave you
instructions on how to reproduce the bug. Again, what did you expect?

> All I hear is abusive language. If you want to achieve anything you need
> to get a lot more polite and constructive.

I have written a whole paragraph on the workings of one of the most
widely used Unix applications to explain why rxvt-unicode is wrong here.
I'd call that quite constructive. But all I got back from you was two
sentences containing the obviously unfounded assumption that the
application has ever been wrong for just about the whole history of
CRTs on Unix. That would really, really be just worth a laugh even
if there was not, in addition, the most important standard on terminal
control to make it clear that the application is perfectly right.

There is really nothing constructive from your side of this debate -
you're just repeating your opinion on tab characters, misinterpreting
a basic concept of the ANSI/ISO/ECMA standard - and I also can't call
it polite if you reply few words more than 'your bug' to my much more
extended explanation.

So if you want me to get constructive again, I really expect an excuse.
And if you want me to continue to send bug reports (you immediately
acknowledged that the other one was useful), I expect that you give
more extended and in-depth answers when you explain that the issues
are really features in the future.

And then again, I'd urgently suggest that you read ECMA-48, the main
standard rxvt implements or is at least strongly oriented at. Just to
have a comparison, I would not dare to maintain vi if I had not read
the POSIX standard on it.

	Gunnar