Subj : Initial design of Terminal class
To   : GitLab note in main/sbbs
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Tue Mar 25 2025 21:08:34

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/506#note_6867

In this case, I would wonder: in what situation is lastlinelen not the length of the line line printed? I suppose one were to print "something\r", it'd be wrong (until such time as a linefeed was sent, then it'd be correct), but the only known use case for the lastlinelen is for *not* counting initial blank lines after user input, so it was not a problem. If we change it so that lastlinelen was only updated upon an output LF, I think that'd be a backward compatible change to the implementation and keep the intent of the variable/problem name. But I don't think there's any reason to pursue such a change as part of this MR.

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