Reduce flicking when changing the size of the preview window with --border

(sleep 1; find .) |
    fzf --bind 'space:change-preview-window(60%|70%|80%|90%|border-left|border-right|border-vertical|border-top|border-horizontal|border-bottom|border-sharp|border-double|border-block|hidden|left|up|down|right|up|down|)' \
        --preview 'cat {}' --color bg:red,preview-bg:blue \
        --border --margin 3

src/terminal.go

@@ -1288,7 +1288,8 @@ func (t *Terminal) resizeWindows(forcePreview bool) {
 		t.pborder.Close()
 		t.pborder = nil
 	}
-	if t.pwindow != nil {
+	hadPreviewWindow := t.hasPreviewWindow()
+	if hadPreviewWindow {
 		t.pwindow.Close()
 		t.pwindow = nil
 	}
@@ -1387,6 +1388,9 @@ func (t *Terminal) resizeWindows(forcePreview bool) {
 				pwidth = util.Max(0, pwidth)
 				pheight = util.Max(0, pheight)
 				t.pwindow = t.tui.NewWindow(y, x, pwidth, pheight, true, noBorder)
+				if !hadPreviewWindow {
+					t.pwindow.Erase()
+				}
 			}
 			verticalPad := 2
 			minPreviewHeight := 3
@@ -1649,7 +1653,7 @@ func (t *Terminal) printInfo() {
 	case infoDefault:
 		t.move(line+1, 0, t.separatorLen == 0)
 		printSpinner()
-		t.move(line+1, 2, false)
+		t.window.Print(" ") // Margin
 		pos = 2
 	case infoRight:
 		t.move(line+1, 0, false)
@@ -1714,6 +1718,7 @@ func (t *Terminal) printInfo() {
 			printSeparator(fillLength, true)
 		}
 		t.window.CPrint(tui.ColInfo, output)
+		t.window.Print(" ") // Margin
 		return
 	}
 
@@ -2922,6 +2927,7 @@ func (t *Terminal) Loop() {
 		t.initFunc()
 		t.termSize = t.tui.Size()
 		t.resizeWindows(false)
+		t.window.Erase()
 		t.printPrompt()
 		t.printInfo()
 		t.printHeader()

src/tui/light.go

@@ -821,44 +821,32 @@ func (w *LightWindow) drawBorderHorizontal(top, bottom bool) {
 		color = ColPreviewBorder
 	}
 	hw := runeWidth(w.border.top)
-	pad := repeat(' ', w.width/hw)
-
-	w.Move(0, 0)
 	if top {
+		w.Move(0, 0)
 		w.CPrint(color, repeat(w.border.top, w.width/hw))
-	} else {
-		w.CPrint(color, pad)
-	}
-
-	for y := 1; y < w.height-1; y++ {
-		w.Move(y, 0)
-		w.CPrint(color, pad)
 	}
 
-	w.Move(w.height-1, 0)
 	if bottom {
+		w.Move(w.height-1, 0)
 		w.CPrint(color, repeat(w.border.bottom, w.width/hw))
-	} else {
-		w.CPrint(color, pad)
 	}
 }
 
 func (w *LightWindow) drawBorderVertical(left, right bool) {
-	width := w.width - 2
-	if !left || !right {
-		width++
-	}
+	vw := runeWidth(w.border.left)
 	color := ColBorder
 	if w.preview {
 		color = ColPreviewBorder
 	}
 	for y := 0; y < w.height; y++ {
-		w.Move(y, 0)
 		if left {
+			w.Move(y, 0)
 			w.CPrint(color, string(w.border.left))
+			w.CPrint(color, " ") // Margin
 		}
-		w.CPrint(color, repeat(' ', width))
 		if right {
+			w.Move(y, w.width-vw-1)
+			w.CPrint(color, " ") // Margin
 			w.CPrint(color, string(w.border.right))
 		}
 	}
@@ -880,7 +868,10 @@ func (w *LightWindow) drawBorderAround(onlyHorizontal bool) {
 		for y := 1; y < w.height-1; y++ {
 			w.Move(y, 0)
 			w.CPrint(color, string(w.border.left))
-			w.CPrint(color, repeat(' ', w.width-vw*2))
+			w.CPrint(color, " ") // Margin
+
+			w.Move(y, w.width-vw-1)
+			w.CPrint(color, " ") // Margin
 			w.CPrint(color, string(w.border.right))
 		}
 	}