st.c    | 10 ++++++++++
 st.info |  2 ++

diff --git a/st.c b/st.c
index 0d35613e04222564ab5fee489df6e1812b0a027f..54af09826c7389b4eac288273fb1aa121f471d76 100644
--- a/st.c
+++ b/st.c
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ 	char trantbl[4]; /* charset table translation */
 	int charset;  /* current charset */
 	int icharset; /* selected charset for sequence */
 	int *tabs;
+	Rune lastc;   /* last printed char outside of sequence, 0 if control */
 } Term;
 
 /* CSI Escape sequence structs */
@@ -1648,6 +1649,12 @@ 	case 'c': /* DA -- Device Attributes */
 		if (csiescseq.arg[0] == 0)
 			ttywrite(vtiden, strlen(vtiden), 0);
 		break;
+	case 'b': /* REP -- if last char is printable print it <n> more times */
+		DEFAULT(csiescseq.arg[0], 1);
+		if (term.lastc)
+			while (csiescseq.arg[0]-- > 0)
+				tputc(term.lastc);
+		break;
 	case 'C': /* CUF -- Cursor <n> Forward */
 	case 'a': /* HPR -- Cursor <n> Forward */
 		DEFAULT(csiescseq.arg[0], 1);
@@ -2373,6 +2380,8 @@ 		tcontrolcode(u);
 		/*
 		 * control codes are not shown ever
 		 */
+		if (!term.esc)
+			term.lastc = 0;
 		return;
 	} else if (term.esc & ESC_START) {
 		if (term.esc & ESC_CSI) {
@@ -2422,6 +2431,7 @@ 		gp = &term.line[term.c.y][term.c.x];
 	}
 
 	tsetchar(u, &term.c.attr, term.c.x, term.c.y);
+	term.lastc = u;
 
 	if (width == 2) {
 		gp->mode |= ATTR_WIDE;
diff --git a/st.info b/st.info
index d0694e229c84037a3b01c7518fe2eeb4568c7904..8201ad62c20f4431baa318ddaad45510a185f41a 100644
--- a/st.info
+++ b/st.info
@@ -184,6 +184,8 @@ 	vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd,
 # XTerm extensions
 	rmxx=\E[29m,
 	smxx=\E[9m,
+# disabled rep for now: causes some issues with older ncurses versions.
+#	rep=%p1%c\E[%p2%{1}%-%db,
 # tmux extensions, see TERMINFO EXTENSIONS in tmux(1)
 	Tc,
 	Ms=\E]52;%p1%s;%p2%s\007,