On 10/16/06, Ben Stiglitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>
> Ah, I understand. Unfortunatly, it seems that allowing the terminal to
>
> wrap itself makes cursor movement unpredictable. Sometimes moving
>
> up/down the wrapped line is seen as one line, sometimes as two.
> That would definitely be a bug in your terminal emulator or your cursor
> handling code. While many parts of the VT102 specification are fairly
> ambiguous when it comes to wrapping, the consensus (e.g. xterm's behavior)
> is to treat wrapped lines as separate lines for the purposes of cursor
> motion.

So the behaviour of something terminal-related is actually more or
less well defined, and any deviations are considered bugs? That almost
feels like a first. ;-)

I'll see if I can find an easily reproducible test case and file a bug
with either screen or gnome-terminal.

>
> The only tricky bit is if your cursor has wrapped off the end of a line but
> not yet moved to the next (the cursor is in the "margin"); I can explain
> this special quirk to you a bit more off-list if you'd like.

If you have the time, I'd be delighted.

>
> -Ben


-- 
Axel

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