NEL character doesn't cause gnome terminal to scroll

[Jay Foad]

Gnome terminal should interpret ESC E as NEL (0x85) (see the description of "C1 (8-Bit) Control Characters" here: http://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html).

As I understand it, NEL should be treated pretty much like LF (0x0A).

In gnome terminal, if I run "echo -n -e '\eE'" near the top of the window, it prints a blank line, which is good. But if I run it when the shell prompt is already at the bottom of the window, it doesn't print a blank line. This seems wrong.

By contrast, "echo -n -e '\n'" always prints a blank line.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 4 10:14:16 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-04-15 (1026 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-23 (104 days ago)

[Jay Foad (jay-foad)]

See also: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693013

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Actually a vte bug which is showing fixed in #693013 on 2013-11-18
Marking "Fix Released" to close