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Subject: Re: tog: print newline on exit to clear bottom line
From: Stefan Sperling <stsp () stsp ! name>
Date: 2020-09-19 18:41:51
Message-ID: 20200919184151.GB95584 () ted ! stsp ! name
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On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 04:13:22PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> TL;DR: Run "TERM=vt100 tog", quit, see for yourself.
>
> ----
> Print newline to clear the bottom line when tog exits.
>
> When a curses(3)-based application exits, the cursor is positioned
> at the start of the bottom line, and the shell will issue the new
> prompt there. However, the bottom line may still contain remnants
> of the curses screen. This is only noticeable on terminals that
> do not switch to/from an alternate screen buffer.
> ----
>
> Applications appear to be split in the way they handle this:
> some print a newline to scroll up the old curses screen, others
> issue a clear-to-eol.
>
> Opinions?
> OK?
A newline seems simple and cannot hurt. No objections here.
Though I wonder if this is something endwin() should handle internally.
>
> diff 6c13dcd2d0d730f9f9fc0fb0c42eb0f409216063 /home/naddy/got
> blob - 8eb6e6b273d41c6a726f1e8b5fe1b04fbcd17415
> file + tog/tog.c
> --- tog/tog.c
> +++ tog/tog.c
> @@ -5686,6 +5686,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
> }
>
> endwin();
> + putchar('\n');
> if (cmd_argv) {
> int i;
> for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
>
>
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