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Bug 779518 - Reset could terminate escape sequences
Reset could terminate escape sequences
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
[fixed:vteparser]
Depends on: vteparser
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-03-03 10:25 UTC by Egmont Koblinger
Modified: 2018-03-27 17:50 UTC
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Description Egmont Koblinger 2017-03-03 10:25:19 UTC 
From https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13383 (see also bug 777733 and bug 737792):

Certain escape sequences are easy to open and not terminate (e.g. while outputting random binary or corrupted data or data of wrong encoding). To the user this looks like the terminal becomes stuck.

The API Reset operation (hence the Reset menu entry) could unstick the terminal from this mode and continue interpreting incoming data as text to be printed.

(Is this a good idea? Any downsides perhaps?)
Comment 1 Egmont Koblinger 2017-03-03 10:31:43 UTC 
See also bug 730760.
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2017-03-04 18:01:23 UTC 
Good idea, yes.

AFAICT, xterm does this too, so there shouldn't be any downside.
Comment 3 Igor 2017-04-27 20:17:59 UTC 
Hi, any progress with this one?
Comment 4 Egmont Koblinger 2017-04-27 20:21:29 UTC 
Not yet :(
Comment 5 Christian Persch 2018-03-27 17:50:49 UTC 
Fixed on master.