On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 05:59:35PM +0100, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:16:28 +0100,
> Helg <helg-openbsd@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > It works in both emacs and vi mode.
> > 
> > However, in testing this, I've found another bug.
> > 
> > I've never looked too closely at this but here's how I understand
> > it should work. There are 3 possibilities when an indicator should
> > be displayed because some text is not visible.
> > 
> > "> " There is more text to the right
> > "< " There is more text to the left
> > "* " There is more text in both directions (vi mode shows + instead)
> > 
> > The "> " does not appear at the right edge of the window but about
> > 10 characters from the edge. This sometime results in the > appearing
> > in the middle of text. It should be output in the same location as
> > < and *.
> > 
> > Interestingly, vi mode always displays the indicator 10 characters
> > from the right edge of the window.  This is too far indented for my
> > taste but, either way, it should be consistent in all cases.
> > 
> > Any chance you can fix this too?
> > 
> 
> Thanks for reports.
> 
> I had started to dig into it, and it leads to a pandora's box.
> 
> So, here I've attached tow patches:
> 
> 1. fix for terminal width
> 2. dances around string length and UTF-8

Ah!, I had not tried your other diff with UTF-8 characters.  Now I did
and it appeared some garbage at the end before the '<' sign.

With your new diffs that issue is gone.


> 
> (2) should be applied on (1).
> 
> I've tested both patched in vi and emacs mode, and it looks works correctly.
> 
> But code of ksh is tricky and I defently need more testing.
> 
> Thus, if it commited, I think that it should be in two stages in some delay
> between (1) and (2).
> 
> -- 
> wbr, Kirill


-- 
Walter