Bug#1067679: libvte-2.91-0: backspace character (code 8) output at the end of a line goes 2 columns backward

[Vincent Lefevre]

Hi,

On 2024-03-26 08:00:37 +0100, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> For me, xterm behaves exactly like vte, it prints "ac".
> 
> Could you please share your xterm version, configuration, and anything
> printed to the terminal prior to this test that might be relevant?

I've eventually found the cause concerning the xterm behavior:
I had

*VT100.reverseWrap:             true

for XTerm, and this, since at least April 2002. It seems to have been
the default in the past (I could see in my mail archives that other
users had it too), and I had never changed this part of my config
since then.

So I suppose that this bug can be closed.

I'll probably remove this setting if I cannot find any information
about why it was set...

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