[Remind-Fans] Odd visual artifacts (missing dividers) in calendar view in xterm
Tim Chase
remind at tim.thechases.com
Sun Feb 26 21:47:58 EST 2023
Wanting to see just the days-of-the-week where things fell for week,
I did
$ remind -q -c+ /dev/null
which worked as expected, but certain bits of the visual grid was
missing lines, notably the last vertical bar at the end of the row
containing the weekday-names and the last vertical bar at the end
of the rows containing the dates
+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+
| Sundayâ | Mondayâ | Tuesdayâ |Wednesdayâ | Thursdayâ | Fridayâ | Saturd
+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+
|26 Feb â** |27 Feb â |28 Feb â |1 Mar â |2 Mar â |3 Mar â |4 Mar â
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+
Based on my testing, I think I've tracked down the cause to xterm
(it doesn't manifest in rxvt or st) when the calendar scrolls the
screen up. In an 80x25 xterm, if I issue
$ clear
$ remind -q -c+4 /dev/null
it triggers because the 4th week causes the lines to scroll, making
the first 3 weeks correctly terminated but the 4th week lack the
last bar on the "25 Mar" box. Similarly, if I
$ seq $LINES # to get the cursor to the bottom of the screen
$ remind -q -c+ /dev/null
I get the missing last bar.
FWIW, this happens with both `-c+` and `-cu+` (fancy line-drawing)
Strangely, if I pipe it to less(1), it renders one screen-full
correctly, but then mangles them if I scroll back:
$ clear
$ remind -q -c+20 | less
[note they're good]
<control+L to refresh>
[now they're missing]
So this is starting to feel more like an xterm issue but I wanted
to make sure there's nothing hinky that remind(1) is doing here
that I should be aware of.
-tim
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