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authorRon Yorston <rmy@pobox.com>2022-04-20 09:23:30 +0100
committerBernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>2022-04-20 16:06:04 +0200
commitc93eb1a95b1f06c145d4169a8776a318a2085e8b (patch)
tree85d6d038e6871ab65fae32323cd8f45bc079b2ac /editors
parent57fea029cc3d6faf5a8b9ad4b17b543359fe7ccb (diff)
downloadbusybox-c93eb1a95b1f06c145d4169a8776a318a2085e8b.tar.gz
vi: fix backspace over tab in commands
Colon and search commands are entered on the status line. Since the cursor position wasn't being tracked backspacing over a tab resulted in a mismatch between the actual and apparent content of the command. function old new delta get_input_line 178 180 +2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 2/0) Total: 2 bytes Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'editors')
-rw-r--r--editors/vi.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/editors/vi.c b/editors/vi.c
index 4257c0fdc..6fa0a4e18 100644
--- a/editors/vi.c
+++ b/editors/vi.c
@@ -1217,10 +1217,11 @@ static char *get_input_line(const char *prompt)
break; // this is end of input
if (isbackspace(c)) {
// user wants to erase prev char
- write1("\b \b"); // erase char on screen
buf[--i] = '\0';
+ go_bottom_and_clear_to_eol();
if (i <= 0) // user backs up before b-o-l, exit
break;
+ write1(buf);
} else if (c > 0 && c < 256) { // exclude Unicode
// (TODO: need to handle Unicode)
buf[i] = c;