Re: [dalias@aerifal.cx: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]]

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

  > > From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
  > > Subject: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]
  > > To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
  > >
  > > On versions of GNU emacs I have tested (21.1 and cvs unicode-2
  > > branch), the "ansi-term" terminal emulator (M-x ansi-term) exhibits
  > > incorrect terminal behavior when given the ESC [ J sequence. In
  > > addition to clearing to the end of the screen, it moves the cursor to
  > > the beginning of the next line if the cursor is not already at the
  > > beginning of a line. To test this, use the following shell command
  > > from a shell running in ansi-term:
  > >
  > > echo -e 'hello\e[Jworld'
  > >
  > > On a vt100/ansi/ecma compatible terminal, this should leave
  > > "helloworld" visible on the screen, with everything afterward cleared.
  > > On GNU emacs' ansi-term, it prints hello on one line and world on the
  > > next, after clearing to the end of the screen.
  > >
  > > Removing the calls to term-unwrap-line from term-erase-in-display (in
  > > term.el) fixes the problem, but I don't know if this has any bad
  > > side-effects.
  > 
  > Looking through the code, I think the calls to term-unwrap-line should
  > be removed.  The note in the docstring of term-erase-in-display that
  > it "should only be called when point is at the start of a screen line"
  > is also false; this condition generally doesn't hold in situations
  > where this function is called, and if we remove the term-unwrap-line
  > calls, it's not necessary at all.
  > 
  > Cursory testing seems to indicate that ansi-term behaves fine without
  > the term-unwrap-line calls.
  > 
  > What do you think?

I checked in a patch that I hope fixes the problem.