With TERM=ansi, when resizing a TUI window from LINES/COLUMNS 31/118
(maximized) to 20/78 (de-maximized), I get a garbled screen (that ^L doesn't
fix) and a message:
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@@ resize done 0, size = 77x20
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with the resulting width being 77 instead of the expected 78.
[ The discrepancy also manifests in CLI, filed as PR30346. ]
The discrepancy comes from tui_resize_all, where we ask readline for the
screen size:
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rl_get_screen_size (&screenheight, &screenwidth);
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As it happens, when TERM is set to ansi, readline decides that the terminal
cannot auto-wrap lines, and reserves one column to deal with that, and as a
result reports back one less than the actual screen width:
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$ echo $COLUMNS
78
$ TERM=xterm gdb -ex "show width" -ex q
Number of characters gdb thinks are in a line is 78.
$ TERM=ansi gdb -ex "show width" -ex q
Number of characters gdb thinks are in a line is 77.
...
In tui_resize_all, we need the actual screen width, and using a screenwidth of
one less than the actual value garbles the screen.
This is currently not causing trouble in testing because we have a workaround
in place in proc Term::resize. If we disable the workaround:
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- stty columns [expr {$_cols + 1}] < $::gdb_tty_name
+ stty columns $_cols < $::gdb_tty_name
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and dump the screen we get the same type of screen garbling:
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0 +---------------------------------------+|
1 ||
2 ||
3 ||
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Another way to reproduce the problem is using command "maint info screen".
After starting gdb with TERM=ansi, entering TUI, and issuing the command, we
get:
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Number of characters curses thinks are in a line is 78.
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and after maximizing and demaximizing the window we get:
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Number of characters curses thinks are in a line is 77.
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If we use TERM=xterm, we do get the expected 78.
Fix this by:
- detecting when readline will report back less than the actual screen width,
- accordingly setting a new variable readline_hidden_cols,
- using readline_hidden_cols in tui_resize_all to fix the resize problem, and
- removing the workaround in Term::resize.
The test-case gdb.tui/empty.exp serves as regression test.
I've applied the same fix in tui_async_resize_screen, the new test-case
gdb.tui/resize-2.exp serves as a regression test for that change. Without
that fix, we have:
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FAIL: gdb.tui/resize-2.exp: again: gdb width 80
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Tested on x86_64-linux.
PR tui/30337
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30337
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