diff --git a/src/screen.c b/src/screen.c
index 08b1c01..71ddbca 100644
--- a/src/screen.c
+++ b/src/screen.c
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@
  *		     displayed (excluding text written by external commands).
  * ScreenAttrs[off]  Contains the associated attributes.
  * ScreenCols[off]   Contains the virtual columns in the line. -1 means not
- *		     available or before buffer text, MAXCOL means after the
- *		     end of the line.
+ *		     available or before buffer text.
  *
  * LineOffset[row]   Contains the offset into ScreenLines*[], ScreenAttrs[]
  *		     and ScreenCols[] for each line.
@@ -509,6 +508,8 @@
 	// Clear rest first, because it's left of the text.
 	if (clear_width > 0)
 	{
+	    int clear_start = col;
+
 	    while (col <= endcol && ScreenLines[off_to] == ' '
 		    && ScreenAttrs[off_to] == 0
 				  && (!enc_utf8 || ScreenLinesUC[off_to] == 0))
@@ -519,6 +520,10 @@
 	    if (col <= endcol)
 		screen_fill(row, row + 1, col + coloff,
 					    endcol + coloff + 1, ' ', ' ', 0);
+
+	    for (int i = endcol; i >= clear_start; i--)
+		ScreenCols[off_to + (i - col)] =
+		    (flags & SLF_INC_VCOL) ? ++last_vcol : last_vcol;
 	}
 	col = endcol + 1;
 	off_to = LineOffset[row] + col + coloff;