Exiting alt screen puts cursor in wrong location

[aljinovic]

Linux + Gnome

Screencast.From.2025-01-03.15-44-21.mp4

[mitchellh]

I can see it clearly in the video but I'm unable to reproduce this. I tried on both macOS and Linux with bash, zsh, and fish. All placed the cursor back in the correct place. Do you have any other tips on how to get this to happen?

[aljinovic]

I'm able to reproduce consistently, Arch + Gnome + Bash. No specific steps other than resizing to larger than original before hitting ESC to go back to input.

[mitchellh]

What version of bash? Perhaps it is relevant. I just tried again with bash on both macOS and Linux (Gnome) and the cursor moves back to the correct place.

[aljinovic]

https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/bash/

bash 5.2.037-1

[mlugg]

WRT reproducing, note that it's important that you've first filled enough rows to begin scrollback (in the video here, that's from the ls command) -- before then, it seems to work as expected.

[aljinovic]

I can confirm this, it works normal when scrollback is not available.

[mitchellh]

I'm still unable to reproduce this. I've produced pages of scrollback.

GNU bash, version 5.2.37(1)-release (aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu)

[aljinovic]

GNU bash, version 5.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

Screencast.From.2025-01-07.16-14-43.mp4