formatter: blank cells carry only across a joined wrap, not after a line break by lawrencecchen · Pull Request #66 · manaflow-ai/ghostty-next

lawrencecchen · 2026-10-31T18:07:36Z

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With unwrap, PageFormatter carried a row's trailing blank cells into the next row when that row was wrap_continuation, even after it had emitted a line break before that row because the prior row did not wrap. A row can keep wrap_continuation after the row before it stops wrapping, so the carried blanks were printed after the break and the row came out shifted right, by up to the whole width.

Found by cmux's VT resize fuzzer (finding E2): an attach replay (cmux-tui vt_replay_bytes, which formats with unwrap) drew a row 43 or 163 columns to the right after a 20x5 to 164x14 resize. Probe of the shrunk case: row 10 wrap=false, row 11 wrap_continuation=true; the formatter emitted \r\n, then 163 spaces, then row 11's text.

Fix: read whether a line break goes out before the row (broke_before, pending blank rows) before they are flushed, and reset blank_cells then too. The existing trailing-state tests (rows 0, a continuation row) keep their results.

Not fixed here: the terminal state that leaves the stale continuation flag; the formatter no longer depends on the flags agreeing.

Tests

19ab1cbcb (test only): "Page plain wrap continuation after a row that does not wrap keeps its column" expects "abc\nu" (it gives "abc\n" + 77 spaces + "u" without the fix).
406763ee6: the fix.
cmux side: vt_replay_keeps_a_stale_wrap_continuation_row_in_its_column (cmux branch cp/fix-e2-formatter-blank-carry) fails on the current pin (fleet step 480ed523); its green run needs a published GhosttyNextKit for the pin (main only).

Not run: the Zig unit test itself (no Zig test lane on the fleet for this fork; the cmux Rust test exercises the same formatter through libghostty-vt).

Branched from 9ce9b7d08 (cmux feat's pin) so the cmux pointer change is this fix alone; it merges onto main as is.

Summary by cubic

Fixes soft-wrap handling so stale wrap flags no longer shift rows or join rows that no longer share a line, across the unwrapping PageFormatter and scroll operations.

With unwrap, trailing blank cells now reset when a line break goes out before the row, so a row keeping wrap_continuation after the prior row stops wrapping is not shifted right (cmux VT fuzz finding E2).
Scroll region scrolls, insertLines, and deleteLines with a full-width region now break soft wraps across the region edges, since only one side of each edge moves; insertLines and deleteLines also break the edge at the screen's top row into scrollback.
A linefeed or scrollUp at a bottom margin now breaks the cursor row's soft wrap into the row below before the scroll moves it.
cursorScrollAbove with a bottom margin and a print wrap at the region bottom keep their own wrap while breaking the stale one below.
breakWrapAbove clears both wrap flags of the broken pair and the spacer head a wide character can leave across the wrap.
The CI lane now runs the new formatter wrap-continuation and scroll-region wrap-edge tests.

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Bug Fixes
- Fixed a terminal display issue where blank rows could appear incorrectly after wrapped text. Blank rows now render with the appropriate line break, including when the following row continues a wrapped line.
- Improved line wrapping when scrolling, inserting or deleting lines, and reaching screen or scroll-region boundaries, preventing unrelated rows from being incorrectly joined.

…not wrap keeps its column (red) cmux VT fuzz finding E2: a row marked wrap_continuation while the row before it does not wrap. The formatter emits the line break (the prior row does not wrap) and still carries the prior row's trailing blank cells (this row says it continues a wrap), so with unwrap it printed them after the break and the row came out shifted right.

…after a line break With unwrap, blank cells at a row's end carried into the next row when that row was marked wrap_continuation, even when the formatter had just emitted a line break before it (the prior row did not wrap). The flags can disagree: a row keeps wrap_continuation after the row before it stops wrapping. The carried blanks were then printed after the break, so the row was drawn shifted right, by up to the whole width (cmux VT fuzz finding E2: an attach replay drew the row 43 or 163 columns to the right). Now blank cells reset when a line break goes out before the row.

coderabbitai · 2026-10-31T18:07:56Z

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Break the wrap at active row zero.
Leave wrap state unchanged when scrollUp receives zero.

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- Around line 1420-1421: Update the region-top handling in the surrounding
function to call breakWrapAbove unconditionally for the region’s top row,
removing the self.cursor.y > limit guard; rely on breakWrapAbove to handle
whether a preceding scrollback row exists.

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- Line 2820: In scrollUp, return before calling breakWrapAtBottomMargin when
count is zero, so a no-op scroll preserves the existing wrap state and spacer
head. Keep the existing scroll behavior unchanged for nonzero counts.

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Screen and terminal scrolling now manage soft-wrap connections at moved region boundaries. Soft-wrap scrolling retains its connection into the new row. The formatter clears carried blank cells when a line break occurs.

Changes: Terminal soft-wrap boundary handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Break wrap connections at screen scroll boundaries `src/terminal/Screen.zig`	The screen breaks wrap connections at scroll-region edges. The new helper clears joined wrap flags and any trailing spacer head in the preceding row.
Handle wrap connections during indexing and line movement `src/terminal/Terminal.zig`, `.github/workflows/next-xcframework.yml`	Terminal indexing distinguishes ordinary linefeeds from soft wraps. Full-width scrolling, line insertion, and line deletion clear wrap connections at relevant boundaries. Tests and workflow filters cover wrap behavior.
Reset blank-cell carryover after line breaks `src/terminal/formatter.zig`	The formatter tracks whether pending blank rows cause a line break and clears carried blank cells in that case. A regression test checks output after a non-wrapping row with a stale wrap-continuation flag.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: mitchellh, marcosero

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These edge cases can join or shift copied terminal text. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness, but the wrap-boundary and HTML formatting fixes should follow.

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- Line 1372: Update the HTML block-break handling near broke_before so that when
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coderabbitai · 2026-10-31T18:12:35Z

            }

+            // Whether a line break goes out before this row (a prior row did not wrap, or blank rows came before it).
+            const broke_before = blank_rows > 0;


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Clear carried blank cells when an HTML block break is consumed.

When a non-wrapping row ends an HTML page, </div> consumes the pending row break and reduces blank_rows to zero. blank_cells remains set and is passed to the next page. A stale wrap_continuation can then print those spaces before the next row.

Suggested fix

- if (blank_rows >= 1) blank_rows -= 1; + if (blank_rows >= 1) { + blank_rows -= 1; + blank_cells = 0; + }

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…s its edges (red) A scroll of a scroll region moves the rows inside it and keeps the rows outside it. The row above the region kept wrap=true and the row below it kept wrap_continuation=true while their neighbour inside the region was replaced, so reflow and the unwrapping formatter joined two rows that no longer hold one line. cmux E2: DECSTBM 3;10, a soft wrap at the region bottom, and the row under the region kept a stale continuation that moved its text one column on reattach.

cursorScrollRegionUp (fast and slow paths), cursorScrollAbove with a bottom margin, insertLines and deleteLines with a full-width region move the rows inside the region and keep the rows outside it. The row above the region kept wrap=true and the row below kept wrap_continuation=true while their neighbour inside was replaced, so reflow and the unwrapping formatter joined rows that no longer hold one line. Screen.breakWrapAbove clears both flags of the pair (and a spacer head left by a wide character) at each edge after the scroll. Rows inside the region keep their links, since they move together; left/right margin scrolls keep the cells outside the margins and are not changed.

…ests

… wrap and SU at a bottom margin (red) Review of 3c717e5: at a bottom margin, the scroll moves the cursor row up with its wrap flag while the row it wrapped into (below the region) stays. The index tests asserted the new blank row, which a scroll always resets; they now assert the moved row. New: a print wrap at the region bottom keeps its own wrap and spacer head while the stale continuation below is broken, and SU (scrollUp) at a bottom margin breaks the moved row's wrap.

…wrap into the row below Before a scroll at the bottom of a full-width region with rows below it, index (not from printWrap) and scrollUp reset the cursor row's soft wrap (cursorResetWrap: its wrap, the next row's continuation, a spacer head): the scroll moves that row up and the row below the region does not move. printWrap's index keeps its wrap, since it wraps into the row the scroll makes. insertLines and deleteLines now also break the edge at the screen's top row (into scrollback).

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+    if (self.cursor.y > limit) {
+        self.breakWrapAbove(self.cursor.page_pin.up(limit).?);


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Break the wrap at active row zero.

When the region starts at row zero, this guard skips the top edge. If scrollback contains a wrapped row above the discarded top row, it remains joined to the row moved into row zero. Copying the screen then joins text that was separated by the discarded row.

Call breakWrapAbove for the region top unconditionally. The helper already handles both a scrollback row and the absence of a preceding row.

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        // Move our cursor to the bottom of the scroll region so we can
        // use the cursorScrollAbove function to create scrollback
        self.screens.active.cursorAbsolute(0, self.scrolling_region.bottom);
+        self.breakWrapAtBottomMargin();


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Leave wrap state unchanged when scrollUp receives zero.

If a caller passes count = 0 with a full-width region above a stationary row, this call can clear a valid wrap and spacer head. The following loop performs no scroll. Return before the wrap reset when count is zero, so a no-op scroll does not change reflow output. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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