Keep terminal textbox cursor on rune boundaries

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Brandon McGinty (chatgpt)
2026-08-09 14:31:40 -04:00
committed by Brandon McGinty
parent 5bf3ed8b84
commit 2bdf9a8193
3 changed files with 38 additions and 8 deletions
+1 -1
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@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ Priority 3: configuration, UI, and binding hardening
fails, hiding startup failure. Return that error. Also stop/join the
PollEvent goroutine on UI shutdown and make Close nonblocking/idempotent.
31. Text UI is not Unicode-safe and timestamp parsing is fragile
[x] 31. Text UI is not Unicode-safe and timestamp parsing is fragile
Files: uiterm/textbox.go, uiterm/textview.go
Textbox cursor positions are byte offsets but editing/display iterates
runes, so non-ASCII input can be split into invalid UTF-8. Textview assumes
+19 -7
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package uiterm
import (
"strings"
// "unicode/utf8"
"unicode/utf8"
"github.com/nsf/termbox-go"
)
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ func (t *Textbox) uiSetBounds(x0, y0, x1, y1 int) {
}
func (t *Textbox) uiDraw() {
if t.ui == nil {
return
}
t.ui.beginDraw()
defer t.ui.endDraw()
@@ -51,6 +54,9 @@ func (t *Textbox) uiDraw() {
if t.pos > len(t.Text) {
t.pos = len(t.Text)
}
for t.pos > 0 && t.pos < len(t.Text) && !utf8.RuneStart(t.Text[t.pos]) {
t.pos--
}
for y := t.y0; y < t.y1; y++ {
for x := t.x0; x < t.x1; x++ {
var chr rune
@@ -95,10 +101,16 @@ func (t *Textbox) uiKeyEvent(key Key) {
t.pos = len(t.Text)
redraw = true
case KeyArrowLeft:
t.pos -= 1
if t.pos > 0 {
_, size := utf8.DecodeLastRuneInString(t.Text[:t.pos])
t.pos -= size
}
redraw = true
case KeyArrowRight:
t.pos += 1
if t.pos < len(t.Text) {
_, size := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(t.Text[t.pos:])
t.pos += size
}
redraw = true
case KeyCtrlC:
t.Text = ""
@@ -119,12 +131,12 @@ func (t *Textbox) uiKeyEvent(key Key) {
redraw = t.handleHistoryKey(key)
case KeySpace:
t.uiCharacterEvent(' ')
case KeyBackspace:
case KeyBackspace2:
case KeyBackspace, KeyBackspace2:
if len(t.Text) > 0 {
if t.pos > 0 {
t.Text = t.Text[:t.pos-1] + t.Text[t.pos:]
t.pos -= 1
_, size := utf8.DecodeLastRuneInString(t.Text[:t.pos])
t.Text = t.Text[:t.pos-size] + t.Text[t.pos:]
t.pos -= size
}
}
// if r, size := utf8.DecodeLastRuneInString(t.Text); r != utf8.RuneError {
+18
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@@ -2,6 +2,24 @@ package uiterm
import "testing"
// Regression: byte-based cursor movement split UTF-8 input, producing invalid
// text when deleting or inserting beside a non-ASCII character.
func TestTextboxEditsAtRuneBoundaries(t *testing.T) {
textbox := Textbox{Text: "aé", pos: len("aé")}
textbox.uiKeyEvent(KeyArrowLeft)
if textbox.pos != 1 {
t.Fatalf("cursor = %d, want rune boundary 1", textbox.pos)
}
textbox.uiKeyEvent(KeyBackspace)
if textbox.Text != "é" || textbox.pos != 0 {
t.Fatalf("after delete: %q at %d", textbox.Text, textbox.pos)
}
textbox.uiCharacterEvent('ß')
if textbox.Text != "ßé" {
t.Fatalf("insert produced %q", textbox.Text)
}
}
func TestTextboxHistoryNavigatesSubmittedText(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()