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letni69

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Registered: 2015-09-21

Posts: 17

Terminal + zsh: Corrupted buffer when horizontally resizing window

I have the following issue that when I resize the terminal window horizontally (gnome-terminal) the buffer content gets somehow corrupted and overrides other content.
I am using zsh as my shell (v5.2) with grml configs and zsh-syntax-highlighting (I uninstalled both to test if the problem is caused by these packages but the problem still persists.)

Any ideas? Is zsh the problem? or gnome-terminal?

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Last edited by letni69 (2016-07-13 21:18:28)

bstaletic

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Registered: 2014-02-02

Posts: 658

Re: Terminal + zsh: Corrupted buffer when horizontally resizing window

It's caused by calling

zle reset-prompt

all the time to enable something in your prompt to be updated, like showing wether you're in "insert" or "normal" mode if you have vi-mode set.

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letni69

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Registered: 2015-09-21

Posts: 17

Re: Terminal + zsh: Corrupted buffer when horizontally resizing window

It's caused by calling

zle reset-prompt

all the time to enable something in your prompt to be updated, like showing wether you're in "insert" or "normal" mode if you have vi-mode set.

Okay, I am not sure if this behavior is intended or not. So is this actually a bug I can report (to the zsh developers)?

bstaletic

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Registered: 2014-02-02

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Re: Terminal + zsh: Corrupted buffer when horizontally resizing window

I don't think that's a bug, as it needs to figure out a way to redraw your prompt all the time - if that means corrupting something else then so be it.

It being not a bug, doesn't mean the functionality can't be improved so a bug report wouldn't hurt. At worst they'd label it "not a but" and close the report.

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