Just had the same thing happen to me, on recently-updated Ubuntu 18.04.
Here are my journalctl entries from the crash (including the one from 2
seconds before in case they're relevant):
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Oct 23 15:27:01 bad-horse code.desktop[3875]: [main 3:27:01 PM] update#setState
idle
Oct 23 15:27:01 bad-h
** Attachment added: "Editing text containing emoji in vim within
gnome-terminal"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1665140/+attachment/4819798/+files/terminal-emoji-glitch.png
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Public bug reported:
When editing Unicode in the terminal, it is important for the terminal
and applications to agree on the width of characters. Otherwise, display
glitches will occur.
In prior versions of Unicode, the character width of emoji was
"ambiguous". As of Unicode 9, they are supposed
** Attachment added: "For comparison, the same text file being edited correctly
in gedit"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1665140/+attachment/4819800/+files/emoji-gedit.png
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1665140
Title:
Emoji that should be wide, according to Unicode 9, display incorrectly
in the terminal
Status in gnome-terminal
> I believe it's the distro's responsibility to ship glib, glibc and vim
so that all use the same Unicode version.
Sounds right, and it's good to hear that there's progress on this front.
I was afraid the situation was stagnant and it would be up to
applications to fix it.
> Or even better, but i
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