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Inconsistent painting of command line vs. overlapping F9 menu #4904

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Is there an existing issue for this?

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Midnight Commander version and build configuration

git

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Linux

Is this issue reproducible using the latest version of Midnight Commander?

  • I confirm the issue is still reproducible with the latest version of Midnight Commander

How to reproduce

Open the F9 menu. Resize the window vertically so that this menu conflicts with the command line.

Expected behavior

Consistent behavior, preferably the menu overwriring the command line (first screenshot).

Actual behavior

Totally random (roughly 50-50%) one of these two:

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Additional context

Is it perhaps related to the subshell asynchronously redisplaying its prompt?? Otherwise what could cause the randomness??

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