From 4c66e69cd9302f231ec8acd90805b0628ce57ff3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Altmanninger <aclopte@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 10:23:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixup b31b52c2 which wasn't right for backward-delete-char

---
 src/reader.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/reader.cpp b/src/reader.cpp
index 450bfb4df..ce87b1e1d 100644
--- a/src/reader.cpp
+++ b/src/reader.cpp
@@ -1210,6 +1210,8 @@ void reader_data_t::delete_char(bool backward) {
     }
     size_t pos_end = pos;
 
+    if (el->position() == 0 && backward) return;
+
     // Fake composed character sequences by continuing to delete until we delete a character of
     // width at least 1.
     int width;