[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 05.02.2017 um 21:36 schrieb Brian Inglis:
> On 2017-02-05 11:35, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Hi Achim,
>>
>> Am 04.02.2017 um 17:13 schrieb Achim Gratz:
>>> Thomas Wolff writes:
>>>> I have uploaded mintty 2.7.4 with the following changes:
>>> Since about November/December last year I'm having problems with
>>> screen and tmux sessions in mintty not correctly refreshing and
>>> leaving garbage characters displayed in the terminal. It seems that
>>> the terminal size is not always correctly reported, especially if
>>> you make the window occupy the left or right half of the screen via
>>> Windows shortcut.
>> Is this within tmux or after leaving tmux (see comment below)? It
>> would be help to cross-test this; if it's mintty, which version
>> would show the behaviour first? What happens in xterm?
>>> Additionally, there seems to be an off-by-one bug when the last
>>> line of the terminal needs to be scrolled up in order to show
>>> content that is longer than the remaining width. This happens when
>>> you for instance recall a long command from history. It's hard to
>>> see what exactoly happens, but it looks like the one character too
>>> many gets printed (and wraps onto the next line) before the whole
>>> terminal window gest scrolled up and the rest of the command gets
>>> printed in the line below the single wrapped character. That
>>> remainder is in various states of disarray, showing both remnants
>>> from the original prompt on the last line (now three lines up),
>>> empty /spaces where there should have been characters from the
>>> command and then of course parts of the command.
>> This might be related to some issue with terminal geometry as
>> perceived by the shell (see
>> https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/377#issuecomment-137728631).
>> Have you checked that? Recently changed your prompt? Try with basic
>> prompt (PS1="\w> ") please.
> Thanks for supporting and enhancing mintty to be even better in
> Cygwin, and able to be used as a console for other environments.
>
> The test below may be relevant to the above problem, or may be
> unrelated.
> Running vttest 2.7 (20140305)
> http://invisible-island.net/vttest/vttest.html
> updated by and used by xterm maintainer for testing.
>
> Test 1. Test of cursor movements screens 3 80 col mode and 4 132 col
> mode gives results looking like below ...
I was aware this test fails, but save any related bug reports so far I 
had assumed it would not be relevant for applications...
Actually, urxvt (rxvt-unicode as invoked on cygwin) fails the same test 
in the same way, so
@Achim: can you please retest with urxvt, for some additional diagnostic 
information?
Actually, also xterm would fail this test if vttest would not disable 
Reverse Wraparound mode initially.
It also enables Wraparound mode which again affects the test case. 
Mintty does not support Reverse Wraparound mode disabling, it's always 
implicitly enabled. I could try to change that, however, I'm not sure 
yet that's really the cause.
Also, the "proper" way to handle wraparound situations (in the 4 
combinations of the 2 modes) is not completely clear, and Reverse 
Wraparound is an xterm specific mode which did not exist on the DEC 
terminals. See some links for reference:
bash - An obscure one: Documented VT100 'soft-wrap' escape sequence? - 
Stack Overflow 
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31360385/an-obscure-one-documented-vt100-soft-wrap-escape-sequence#31360700>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31360385/an-obscure-one-documented-vt100-soft-wrap-escape-sequence#31360700
XTerm – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 
<http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#vt100_wrapping>
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#vt100_wrapping
VT100 Termcap Entry (CENG 455) 
<http://www.pitt.edu/%7Ejcaretto/text/cleanup/vt100-termcap.html>
http://www.pitt.edu/%7Ejcaretto/text/cleanup/vt100-termcap.html

> It may also be useful if mintty had some character hex value box
> display mode switch to display the actual codes at each visual
> position, or maybe a font used to display the character hex value in
> a box, often used in fonts as glyphs for non-printing control
> characters and those in the Private Use Area, in which case that could
> perhaps be added to the mintty package for use in testing.
> I have been searching for such a font with no success so far.
Hmm, I don't see how that's related to this issue, but it might be a 
nice feature.
Like my text editor, mined, actually does: inform about current 
character code and name (and CJK details if desired).
I could imagine to have a mode (switchable by context menu) that shows 
this information in the window title bar, to avoid the effort of 
handling a popup box.

------
Thomas

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