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Emoji breaks cursor position and blocks backspace

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli

Research direction

Reproduce the issue in a WSL profile in Windows Terminal by running edit and pasting the family emoji through the Windows Emoji Picker. Verify the cursor position and backspace behavior before and after the fix; done means the cursor remains correct and backspace works normally.

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Description

In WSL, pasting the 'family' emoji via the Emoji Picker (Win+'.') misplaces the cursor position and blocks backspace.

Repro:

  1. Run WSL profile in Windows Terminal
  2. Run edit
  3. Press Win+'.' for Emoji Picker
  4. Paste the 'family: man, woman, girl, boy' emoji and press Esc
  5. Check the cursor position and whether the backspace is working

Tested on Win11 and Win10.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cbd3ffb7-c493-41c1-b431-4bae70685d53

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