diff --git a/terminal/bundles/org.eclipse.terminal.control/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/terminal/bundles/org.eclipse.terminal.control/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
index ff5a3fb72be..0c618bbd154 100644
--- a/terminal/bundles/org.eclipse.terminal.control/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
+++ b/terminal/bundles/org.eclipse.terminal.control/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Manifest-Version: 1.0
 Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
 Bundle-Name: %pluginName
 Bundle-SymbolicName: org.eclipse.terminal.control; singleton:=true
-Bundle-Version: 1.1.200.qualifier
+Bundle-Version: 1.1.300.qualifier
 Bundle-Activator: org.eclipse.terminal.internal.control.impl.TerminalPlugin
 Bundle-Vendor: %providerName
 Bundle-Localization: plugin
diff --git a/terminal/bundles/org.eclipse.terminal.control/src/org/eclipse/terminal/internal/emulator/VT100EmulatorBackend.java b/terminal/bundles/org.eclipse.terminal.control/src/org/eclipse/terminal/internal/emulator/VT100EmulatorBackend.java
index 4dfc1f1b560..62379ad64b8 100644
--- a/terminal/bundles/org.eclipse.terminal.control/src/org/eclipse/terminal/internal/emulator/VT100EmulatorBackend.java
+++ b/terminal/bundles/org.eclipse.terminal.control/src/org/eclipse/terminal/internal/emulator/VT100EmulatorBackend.java
@@ -165,10 +165,7 @@ public void insertCharacters(int charactersToInsert) {
 				TerminalStyle style = fTerminal.getStyle(line, col - n);
 				fTerminal.setChar(line, col, c, style);
 			}
-			int last = Math.min(fCursorColumn + n, fColumns);
-			for (int col = fCursorColumn; col < last; col++) {
-				fTerminal.setChar(line, col, '\000', null);
-			}
+			eraseCells(line, fCursorColumn, Math.min(fCursorColumn + n, fColumns));
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -177,7 +174,7 @@ public void eraseToEndOfScreen() {
 		synchronized (fTerminal) {
 			eraseLineToEnd();
 			for (int line = toAbsoluteLine(fCursorLine + 1); line < toAbsoluteLine(fLines); line++) {
-				fTerminal.cleanLine(line);
+				eraseLine(line);
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -187,7 +184,7 @@ public void eraseToEndOfScreen() {
 	public void eraseToCursor() {
 		synchronized (fTerminal) {
 			for (int line = toAbsoluteLine(0); line < toAbsoluteLine(fCursorLine); line++) {
-				fTerminal.cleanLine(line);
+				eraseLine(line);
 			}
 			eraseLineToCursor();
 		}
@@ -197,7 +194,7 @@ public void eraseToCursor() {
 	public void eraseAll() {
 		synchronized (fTerminal) {
 			for (int line = toAbsoluteLine(0); line < toAbsoluteLine(fLines); line++) {
-				fTerminal.cleanLine(line);
+				eraseLine(line);
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -205,27 +202,45 @@ public void eraseAll() {
 	@Override
 	public void eraseLine() {
 		synchronized (fTerminal) {
-			fTerminal.cleanLine(toAbsoluteLine(fCursorLine));
+			eraseLine(toAbsoluteLine(fCursorLine));
 		}
 	}
 
+	private void eraseLine(int line) {
+		fTerminal.cleanLine(line);
+		eraseCells(line, 0, fColumns);
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	public void eraseLineToEnd() {
 		synchronized (fTerminal) {
-			int line = toAbsoluteLine(fCursorLine);
-			for (int col = fCursorColumn; col < fColumns; col++) {
-				fTerminal.setChar(line, col, '\000', null);
-			}
+			eraseCells(toAbsoluteLine(fCursorLine), fCursorColumn, fColumns);
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Erasing leaves behind the background a program is writing in, not the one the
+	 * terminal started with (xterm's "back color erase", which every terminal that
+	 * supports colour implements). Colouring a run of a line by setting a background
+	 * and erasing to the end of it is how a program paints anything wider than the
+	 * characters it has to put there, and without this such a line keeps the
+	 * terminal's own colour from its last character on. xterm applies this to every
+	 * erase (EL, ED, ECH) and to the cells insertion and deletion uncover (ICH, DCH).
+	 */
+	private void eraseCells(int line, int from, int to) {
+		fWrapPending = false; // erasing, inserting and deleting all forget a pending wrap
+		// Only the background carries over; what is erased is not bold or underlined.
+		TerminalStyle plain = getDefaultStyle();
+		TerminalStyle erased = plain == null || fStyle == null ? fStyle : plain.setBackground(fStyle);
+		for (int col = from; col < to; col++) {
+			fTerminal.setChar(line, col, '\000', erased);
 		}
 	}
 
 	@Override
 	public void eraseLineToCursor() {
 		synchronized (fTerminal) {
-			int line = toAbsoluteLine(fCursorLine);
-			for (int col = 0; col <= fCursorColumn; col++) {
-				fTerminal.setChar(line, col, '\000', null);
-			}
+			eraseCells(toAbsoluteLine(fCursorLine), 0, fCursorColumn + 1);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -251,10 +266,7 @@ public void deleteCharacters(int n) {
 				TerminalStyle style = fTerminal.getStyle(line, col);
 				fTerminal.setChar(line, col - n, c, style);
 			}
-			int first = Math.max(fCursorColumn, fColumns - n);
-			for (int col = first; col < fColumns; col++) {
-				fTerminal.setChar(line, col, '\000', null);
-			}
+			eraseCells(line, Math.max(fCursorColumn, fColumns - n), fColumns);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -353,6 +365,7 @@ private int doLineWrap() {
 	 * MUST be called from a synchronized block!
 	 */
 	private void doNewline() {
+		fWrapPending = false; // DEC STD 070: any move of the cursor forgets a pending wrap
 		if (fCursorLine == fScrollRegion.getBottomLine()) {
 			scrollUp(1);
 		} else if (fCursorLine + 1 >= fLines) {
@@ -374,6 +387,7 @@ public void processNewline() {
 	}
 
 	private void doReverseLineFeed() {
+		fWrapPending = false;
 		if (fCursorLine == fScrollRegion.getTopLine()) {
 			scrollDown(1);
 		} else {
@@ -436,6 +450,7 @@ public void setCursorLine(int targetLine) {
 				targetLine = fLines - 1;
 			}
 			fCursorLine = targetLine;
+			fWrapPending = false;
 			// We make the assumption that nobody is changing the
 			// terminal cursor except this class!
 			// This assumption gives a huge performance improvement
@@ -505,10 +520,7 @@ public void scrollDown(int n) {
 	public void eraseCharacters(int n) {
 		synchronized (fTerminal) {
 			int line = toAbsoluteLine(fCursorLine);
-			int end = Math.min(fCursorColumn + n, fColumns);
-			for (int col = fCursorColumn; col < end; col++) {
-				fTerminal.setChar(line, col, '\000', null);
-			}
+			eraseCells(line, fCursorColumn, Math.min(fCursorColumn + n, fColumns));
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/terminal/tests/org.eclipse.terminal.test/src/org/eclipse/terminal/internal/emulator/VT100EmulatorBackendTest.java b/terminal/tests/org.eclipse.terminal.test/src/org/eclipse/terminal/internal/emulator/VT100EmulatorBackendTest.java
index aecbc640616..42d5e445c35 100644
--- a/terminal/tests/org.eclipse.terminal.test/src/org/eclipse/terminal/internal/emulator/VT100EmulatorBackendTest.java
+++ b/terminal/tests/org.eclipse.terminal.test/src/org/eclipse/terminal/internal/emulator/VT100EmulatorBackendTest.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.terminal.internal.emulator;
 
 import static org.eclipse.terminal.model.TerminalColor.BLACK;
+import static org.eclipse.terminal.model.TerminalColor.GREEN;
 import static org.eclipse.terminal.model.TerminalColor.WHITE;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
@@ -1086,4 +1087,81 @@ public void testNewlineInTopAnchoredScrollRegionCurrentlyDiscardsTopLine() {
 		assertNull(term.getChars(3));
 		assertEquals("4444", new String(term.getChars(4))); // footer below the region is untouched
 	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testEraseKeepsBackground() {
+		ITerminalTextData term = makeITerminalTextData();
+		IVT100EmulatorBackend vt100 = makeBakend(term);
+		term.setMaxHeight(4);
+		vt100.setDimensions(4, 8);
+		vt100.setDefaultStyle(TerminalStyle.getStyle(WHITE, BLACK));
+		TerminalStyle onGreen = TerminalStyle.getStyle(WHITE, GREEN).setBold(true);
+		// a program paints a run wider than its text by setting a background and erasing
+		vt100.setStyle(onGreen);
+		vt100.setCursor(0, 0);
+		vt100.appendString("ab");
+		vt100.eraseLineToEnd();
+		assertEquals(GREEN, term.getStyle(0, 5).getBackgroundTerminalColor());
+		assertEquals(GREEN, term.getStyle(0, 7).getBackgroundTerminalColor());
+		assertFalse(term.getStyle(0, 5).isBold()); // only the background carries over
+		// the same for erase to cursor, whole line, ECH, and the cells ICH and DCH uncover
+		vt100.setCursor(1, 3);
+		vt100.eraseLineToCursor();
+		assertEquals(GREEN, term.getStyle(1, 0).getBackgroundTerminalColor());
+		vt100.setCursor(2, 0);
+		vt100.eraseLine();
+		assertEquals(GREEN, term.getStyle(2, 7).getBackgroundTerminalColor());
+		vt100.setStyle(TerminalStyle.getStyle(WHITE, BLACK));
+		vt100.setCursor(3, 0);
+		vt100.appendString("0123456"); // one short of the margin, so as not to wrap
+		vt100.setStyle(onGreen);
+		vt100.setCursor(3, 1);
+		vt100.eraseCharacters(2);
+		assertEquals(GREEN, term.getStyle(3, 2).getBackgroundTerminalColor());
+		assertEquals(BLACK, term.getStyle(3, 3).getBackgroundTerminalColor());
+		vt100.setCursor(3, 4);
+		vt100.insertCharacters(1);
+		assertEquals(GREEN, term.getStyle(3, 4).getBackgroundTerminalColor());
+		assertEquals('4', term.getChar(3, 5));
+		vt100.deleteCharacters(1);
+		assertEquals(GREEN, term.getStyle(3, 7).getBackgroundTerminalColor());
+		// erasing in the default background stays default
+		vt100.setStyle(TerminalStyle.getStyle(WHITE, BLACK));
+		vt100.setCursor(0, 0);
+		vt100.eraseToEndOfScreen();
+		assertEquals(BLACK, term.getStyle(2, 7).getBackgroundTerminalColor());
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testPendingWrapForgottenByCursorMove() {
+		ITerminalTextData term = makeITerminalTextData();
+		IVT100EmulatorBackend vt100 = makeBakend(term);
+		term.setMaxHeight(3);
+		vt100.setDimensions(3, 5);
+		vt100.setVT100LineWrapping(true); // xterm's deferred wrap, as the process connector sets it
+		vt100.setCursor(0, 0);
+		vt100.appendString("abcde"); // fills the row: the wrap is pending, not done
+		// DEC STD 070: a line feed, a cursor move or an erase forgets the pending wrap
+		vt100.processNewline();
+		vt100.appendString("x");
+		assertEquals('x', term.getChar(1, 4));
+		assertFalse(term.isWrappedLine(0));
+		assertFalse(term.isWrappedLine(1));
+		vt100.setCursor(0, 4);
+		vt100.appendString("e");
+		vt100.setCursorLine(2);
+		vt100.appendString("y");
+		assertEquals('y', term.getChar(2, 4));
+		vt100.setCursor(0, 4);
+		vt100.appendString("e");
+		vt100.eraseCharacters(1);
+		vt100.appendString("z");
+		assertEquals('z', term.getChar(0, 4));
+		assertEquals(0, vt100.getCursorLine());
+		// only writing on is a wrap
+		vt100.setCursor(0, 4);
+		vt100.appendString("ef");
+		assertTrue(term.isWrappedLine(0));
+		assertEquals('f', term.getChar(1, 0));
+	}
 }