Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had this to say, > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 01:13:47PM -0700, Deb wrote: > > I forgot to mention that I'm using xterm-166, with terminfo > > xterm-color, on Solaris, Sparc. Not sure the xfree86 is > > appropriate for this platform? > > But xterm-color usually says that the terminal doesn't implement back color > erase (bce). In that case, most full-screen applications will write explicit > blanks, which xterm's select/paste will preserve. Hold on. The behavior holds for *both* xterm and xterm-color, and I just tested F-secure ssh Windoze client - and it also exhibits the same behaviour - the only common denominator is using mutt and copying/ pasting text from a displayed message.
Mutt, in all cases I think, is using my color defaults, even when there is no color. I could eliminate that from the mix and test, I suppose. Next on the drawing board... deb > > I would consider this a bug. > > ( sure - but not in mutt or xterm ;-) I still respectfully disagree (see above). Kind Regards, deb
