Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]]

[Chong Yidong]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:

>   > > echo -e 'hello\e[Jworld'
>   > >
>   > > On a vt100/ansi/ecma compatible terminal, this should leave
>   > > "helloworld" visible on the screen, with everything afterward cleared.
>   > > On GNU emacs' ansi-term, it prints hello on one line and world on the
>   > > next, after clearing to the end of the screen.
>
> In general tests using "echo" are not good enough, the correct way to
> do it is to use "tput", there are some subtleties involved...

On the other hand, using "echo" in ansi-term does produce a different
result from doing it in xterm.  Isn't that divergent behavior?