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Re: Odd interaction between tab and backspace


Greetings, Mark Yagnatinsky!

> I've tried the following in mintty and in putty, and it happens in both:

> First, launch cat or grep or similar.
> Type a line with some tabs in it.
> Try to backspace them away.

> The tabs are erased one space at time, leading to ... You know what,
> why don't I just show you:

> $ cat
> 0       1       2       3       4       5       6     eh?
> eh?

> The above was produced by typing 0 through 9 separated by tabs, then
> backspacing as much as possible, then typing 'eh?'  The screen still
> shows 0 through 6 followed by eh?, but all cat got was the eh?!

> Is it a bug, a feature, or something else?

I can only replicate it in mintty. In PuTTY 0.62 with putty-256color terminal
and Ubuntu 8.04 running at the other end, I can not repeat it.
Tabs get deleted all proper.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 07.09.2014, <19:12>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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