OSC escape sequences received out-of-order in 3rd-party terminals

[acarl005]

Windows Terminal version

1.19.11213.0

Windows build number

10.0.22631.0

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

ANSI compatibility has been pretty good in ConPTY. We're coming up on some niche cases.

In a 3rd-party terminal, e.g. alacritty, produce some text with an OSC escape sequence interleaved between some text.

PowerShell 7.4.2
PS> echo "hello `e]2;new title`a world"
hello  world

Visually, things look pretty OK. The correct text is echo'd and the title is changed.

But, here is the exact data that alacritty read out of ConPTY:

hello  world
PS> ESC]0;new titleBEL

Observe that when the text was produced in the shell, the OSC command to set title was between "hello" and "world". However, when the text was read out of ConPTY by the terminal, the ordering is changed.

Expected Behavior

I expect the ordering of text, including the ANSI escape sequences, to be preserved.

Actual Behavior

ANSI escape sequences are being parsed and re-serialized in a "lossy" way. While this may be necessary when a Windows Terminal is involved, it isn't when the terminal application only receives ANSI sequences. That is, there is no need to try to parse the ANSI. ConPTY does still need to convert console API calls coming from Windows command-line apps, but plain ANSI text doesn't need any conversion.

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[j4james]

This is essentially a duplicate of #8698, and is probably not generically solvable without passing through the ANSI sequences directly, as you're proposing. That's tracked in #1173.

[carlos-zamora]

Thanks for filing! We're going to mark this as a /dup of #8698 then 😊

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