[PATCH] vi: fix backspace over tab in commands

Ron Yorston rmy at pobox.com
Wed Apr 20 08:23:30 UTC 2022


Colon and search commands are entered on the status line.  Since
the cursor position wasn't being tracked backspacing over a tab
resulted in a mismatch between the actual and apparent content
of the command.

function                                             old     new   delta
get_input_line                                       178     180      +2
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 2/0)                 Total: 2 bytes

Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy at pobox.com>
---
 editors/vi.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/editors/vi.c b/editors/vi.c
index 4257c0fdc..6fa0a4e18 100644
--- a/editors/vi.c
+++ b/editors/vi.c
@@ -1217,10 +1217,11 @@ static char *get_input_line(const char *prompt)
 			break;		// this is end of input
 		if (isbackspace(c)) {
 			// user wants to erase prev char
-			write1("\b \b"); // erase char on screen
 			buf[--i] = '\0';
+			go_bottom_and_clear_to_eol();
 			if (i <= 0) // user backs up before b-o-l, exit
 				break;
+			write1(buf);
 		} else if (c > 0 && c < 256) { // exclude Unicode
 			// (TODO: need to handle Unicode)
 			buf[i] = c;
-- 
2.35.1



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