Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] sideband: append suffix for message whose CR in next pktline

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 15 Jun 2021, Jiang Xin wrote:

quoted

The issue this patch try to fix is like the following example:

    PKTLINE(\2 "<progress-1>" CR "<progress-2>")
    PKTLINE(\2 CR "<message-3>" LF)

The message "<progress-2>" is displayed without a proper clear-to-eol
suffix, because it's eol (CR) is in another pktline.

I'd fix this issue with the following logic:

bool pending_clear_to_eol;

my_putchar(c) {
	switch (c) {
	case '\r':
	case '\n':
		pending_clear_to_eol = true;
		break;
	default:
		if (pending_clear_to_eol) {
			clear_to_eol();
			pending_clear_to_eol = false;
		}
		break;
	}
	putchar(c);
}

In other words, you clear the line after printing "remote:" but only if 
there is a non \n or \r coming next.

What puzzles me the most in this discussion is why we do this for
LF.  I do understand why we need it for CR---the line we are going
to show message on after emitting CR would be full of leftover
letters we previously have written before emitting CR, so we'd show
the message (to overwrite the initial part enough to show our own
message) and then clear to the end with either ANSI sequence of
sufficient number of whitespaces.  But line feed would take us to a
fresh and blank line---there is nothing to clear, no?

Thanks.