From skostysh at princeton.edu  Wed Nov 19 22:14:38 2014
From: skostysh at princeton.edu (Scott Kostyshak)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:14:38 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Cursor not behaving properly
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at princeton.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Kaiyin Zhong (Victor Chung)
> <kindlychung at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I found a strange bug in R recently (version 3.1.2):
>>
>> As you can see from the screenshots attached, when the cursor passes the
>> right edge of the console, instead of start on a new line, it goes back to
>> the beginning of the same line, and overwrites everything after it.
>>
>> This happens every time the size of the terminal is changed, for example,
>> if you fit the terminal to the right half of the screen, start an R
>> session, exec some commands, maximize the terminal, and type a long command
>> into the session, then you will find the bug reproduced.
>>
>> I am on Ubuntu 14.04, and I have tested this in konsole, guake and
>> gnome-terminal.
>
> I can reproduce this, also on Ubuntu 14.04, with gnome-terminal and
> xterm. If you don't get any response here, please file a bug report at
> bugs.r-project.org.

For archival purposes, the OP reported the bug here:
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16077

Scott


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Scott Kostyshak
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Princeton University



[Rd] Cursor not behaving properly
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