drawing wrapped lines in REPL

[kleinschmidt]

When typing in the REPL, as soon as the line wraps around, it starts "gobbling up" lines above. Every time I type another character, it re-prints everything on the wrapped part on a new line, instead of re-writing the wrapped part:

This is with:

• Julia 0.6.2
• julia-repl from melpa (20171116.46)
• GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.26) of 2017-12-04

[tpapp]

This is unfortunately a bug in Emacs, I already reported it.

[hcarlsso]

Is there any quick fix for this?

[tpapp]

I don't know, one would have to dig into the terminal code. Maybe alternative terminals packages in Emacs don't have this problem, or would be more willing to fix this.

[prosoitos]

Thanks for reporting the bug upstream!

In case this may be of any help to anyone (maybe it'll work for you too @hcarlsoo?):

I was having issues with this with long paths. It would make the repl so messy that I had to kill the session.

Breaking the string representing the path and concatenating the fragments is working well as a workaround for me.

Example:

file = string("../../xxxx/xxxx/xxxxxxxx/",
              "xxxxxx/xxxxxx/xxxxxx/xxxxx.csv")

or

file = "../../xxxx/xxxx/xxxxxxxx/" *
       "xxxxxx/xxxxxx/xxxxxx/xxxxx.csv"

Note:

There is no issue when the reply is printing wrapped lines. It is only in input (whether typed directly in it or sent from julia-mode) that it was messing everything up. So after running the above, I can print file without any problem.

[christopher-dG]

The vterm backend doesn't have this problem. All the more reason to get #51 in!