Re: Strange xterm scrolling problem introduced in XTerm(289)

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 06:50:48PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 04:22:05PM -0700, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > 
> > > Did you run #288 before this update?  (288 had several fixes for
> > > Coverity warnings, one of the #289 changes fixed something that
> > > I broke in addressing those).
> > 
> > I believe I had been running #288 at one point.  I just updated Cygwin
> > and could only revert to 287 (not 288).  There is no scrollback
> > problem with this version.
> 
> hmm - _looking_ for the problem, I ran uxterm with valgrind (which reported
> no problem...), but I resized the window back and forth a few times and
> after several tries, got some debris on the screen which corresponds
> to what you're describing.  (Scrolling with the shifted pageup/pagedown
> or with the scrollbar didn't produce it; it's the repainting due to
> resizes dragging text out of the scrollback which gives the result).
> 
> thanks for the report (I'll work on this now)

The problem is that in reverting the change from #282, I missed
a piece - will followup with a _short_ patch for #290...

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