Package: libvte-2.91-0 Version: 0.75.92-1 Severity: normal A backspace character (code 8) output at the end of a physical line goes 2 columns backward.
For instance, in a 80-column libvte-based terminal (such as GNOME Terminal or Sakura), I get $ for i in $(seq 4 $(tput cols)) ; do printf "." ; done ; printf "ab \bc\n" .............................................................................ac Xterm does not have such an issue: $ for i in $(seq 4 $(tput cols)) ; do printf "." ; done ; printf "ab \bc\n" .............................................................................abc -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.6.15-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages libvte-2.91-0 depends on: ii libatk1.0-0t64 2.51.90-4 ii libc6 2.37-15.1 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.18.0-1+local1 ii libcairo2 1.18.0-1+local1 ii libfribidi0 1.0.13-3+b1 ii libgcc-s1 14-20240315-1 ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.78.4-6 ii libgnutls30t64 3.8.3-1.1+b1 ii libgtk-3-0t64 3.24.41-3 ii libicu72 72.1-4+b1 ii liblz4-1 1.9.4-1+b2 hi libpango-1.0-0 1.51.0+ds-4 hi libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.51.0+ds-4 ii libpcre2-8-0 10.42-4+b1 ii libstdc++6 14-20240315-1 ii libsystemd0 255.4-1+b1 ii libvte-2.91-common 0.75.92-1 libvte-2.91-0 recommends no packages. libvte-2.91-0 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
