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bug #55896: using --guide together with stripecolor can give an intermittent bar

Submitter:  Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Submitted:  Tue 12 Mar 2019 07:07:00 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Fixed
Assigned to:  bens Open/Closed:  Closed

Fri 15 Mar 2019 02:02:54 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Fixed in a better way by commit 47f3dc75.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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Fri 15 Mar 2019 01:28:06 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Worked around by commit d9faac61, by dotting the stripe when it's in the last column.  Not a nice workaround, but...

Ehm... the hard space didn't work, but: it didn't work before David fixed the multibyte issue.  Maybe it works now.  Let me check...

Yeah, it would work with a non-breaking space.  But that is only available when UTF-8 is being used.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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Tue 12 Mar 2019 07:07:00 PM UTC, original submission:  

To reproduce, make a VTE-based terminal exactly 80 columns wide, put 'set stripecolor ,yellow' at the end of your .nanorc file, and then run:

  src/nano --linenumbers --guide=75 +1 NEWS

See how the vertical bar is absent on lines 7 and 8 and 13, and on lines 20 to 29 (if your terminal is that high).  Weird!  Note that the vertical bar is absent only when the text ends more than six characters before the window's edge.  Hmmm...  This feels line an ncurses optimization bug, but it isn't.

I've tried five different terminal emulators.  Unaffected are xterm and Pantheon.  Affected are Gnome Terminal, Xfce Terminal, and roxterm.  The latter three are all VTE-based, so this appears to be a VTE bug.

The bug can be worked around by adding

    if (stripe_column == editwincols)
        wredrawln(edit, row, 1);

after drawing each stripe character, but that forces each line to be really redrawn, defeating ncurses' optimization, and is thus a bit wasteful.  Also, it doesn't defeat the bug when scrolling line-by-line.  Paging up and down works fine, but using Alt+Down, for example, can leave holes in the bar.  It can even result in the bar becoming thirty characters wide on some line.  :|

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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