PuTTY bug wrapping-edge-cases
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summary: Multiple edge-case bugs in terminal line wrapping
class: bug: This is clearly an actual problem we want fixed.
present-in: 0.78
fixed-in: ed5bf9b3b86a45b36468a6f29d535d2f74436387 15081bb0ad3ddde9c98c75b9e0675eff0cfe75aa (0.79)
Three edge-case bugs were found in the interaction between the
terminal's handling of line wrapping, double-width glyphs and the
backspace control character, after 0.78 was released. This record
describes all three together, because they're somewhat similar and all
fixed at the same time:
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If an application printed a double-width character when the cursor was
in the last column of the screen, and line wrapping was disabled, the
terminal would fail to notice that, and wrap to the start of the next
line anyway before printing the character.
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If an application did the same thing with line wrapping enabled, and
then tried to backspace past that character to overwrite it (in the
manner that it would do if it was unaware that line wrapping had taken
place at all), the cursor would end up one space away from the
character you aimed for.
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If the terminal was just one column wide, then printing a character
and then backspacing would move the cursor to the previous line
instead of leaving it logically on top of the just-printed character.
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(last revision of this bug record was at 2023-04-24 15:12:08 +0100)