On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 03:52:09AM +0600, NRK wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 07:51:52PM +0000, Ian Liu Rodrigues wrote:
> > I've noticed that in some situations wide characters are being cropped
> > on my terminal. The following script, which uses a wide character from
> > the "Nerd Font Symbol"[1], shows a test case:
> > 
> > 
> >     echo -e '\e[31m \e[0m c'
> >     echo -e '\e[31m  \e[0mc'
> > 
> 
> Hi Liu,
> 
> I remember having the same problem in ST, however it works fine now.
> Looking at my git log I haven't applied any patches for it and even the
> upstream branch works fine for me.
> 
> This might be related to terminfo (5). I won't be delving any deeper
> into this as I've moved over to XTerm long ago due to input latency
> reasons. You might want to check FAQ provided in the ST repo.
> 
> P.S echo is non-portable. Use printf.
> https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/commands/builtin/echo#portability_considerations
> 
> - NRK
> 

Its a longstanding myth st has input latency issues.
The common quoted benchmark is wrong.

-- 
Kind regards,
Hiltjo

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