Writing a colored character into a gap created by \t recolors the entire gap

[Marc Lehmann]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 06:53:19PM +0400, "Oleg A.P." <urxlist at dev-random.ru> wrote:
> This behavor does not match other terminals and is not expected by 
> NCurses. The conditions for the bug are rather rare but they do happen.

Hi, this behaviour is correct - by default, urxvt handles tab as a wide
character, rather than a cursor movement. You can switch this behaviour
off using "+ptab" (see manpage for details on this option).

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