On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 02:48:20PM +0000, David wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 at 11:51, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:29:32AM +0200, Holger Klene wrote: > > > Repeat-By: > > > run the following command line: > > > clear; seq 50; printf '\e[36;44m\nsome colored\ttext with\ttabs\e[m\n' > > > Play with the parameter to seq, to keep the line within the first screen > > > or move it offscreen.
> The bug being reported is that the '\t' characters have a black background > if the 'seq' argument is low enough that its lines 1 and 2 remain > visible when run. > But if the 'seq' argument is changed to be bigger, so that (at least) > lines 1 and 2 both > scroll off the top of the terminal window so that they are not visible, then > the > '\t' characters then get the expected blue background. Ahh. That wasn't clear to me. Thanks. In an 80x24 rxvt-unicode or xterm terminal, "seq 22" shows the reported problem, and "seq 23" does not.