Hello, I've been using st for a while now; it works great. Thanks to the devs and maintainers!
I have a problem though, when using ed; I don't know whether it's a bug in st or elsewhere. When typing a line in ed, using backspace to erase a multibyte UTF-8 character *seems* OK visually, but does not work: only the last byte is really removed, leaving an invalid UTF-8 character. For example, 3-byte characters need 3 backspaces to be erased, but the terminal shows 3 characters erased. Steps to reproduce (^H is a backspace): $ ed test a aé^Ha . p wq The resulting file contains bytes 61 c3 61 0a. I tried GNU ed, ed from 9base, and sam -d, launched from bash and 9base's rc. They all have this behaviour in st, both in version 0.5 and tip (using stty erase ^H for tip, as explained in this commit summary http://git.suckless.org/st/commit/config.def.h?id=c46d929fe18e4a3c9c41101eafa7a9668c8c8830 — as a side note, wouldn't this be worth mentioning in the FAQ?). However in xterm, gnome-terminal, and lxterminal, both ed and sam -d work as expected. It may be that one's not supposed to use backspaces in ed, but this behaviour is weird nonetheless… -- A.N.
