URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66385>
Summary: Reverse video no longer works
Group: GNU Screen
Submitter: malvineous
Submitted: Mon 28 Oct 2024 07:16:25 PM AEDT
Category: User Interface
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: None
Fixed Release: None
Planned Release: None
Work Required: None
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Date: Mon 28 Oct 2024 07:16:25 PM AEDT By: Adam Nielsen <malvineous>
Reverse video no longer works, instead rendering text normally, making it no
longer stand out.
Steps to reproduce:
1. In a normal terminal, run "man ls" and observe the last line on the screen
is reverse video (black text on a grey background).
2. Run screen, then "man ls" again, and observe the last line is now rendered
normally, e.g. grey text on a black background.
In case it depends on the terminal, I am using rxvt-unicode.
This used to work in the previous version of screen, it only seems to have
broken since upgrading to v5.0.0.
The fact that the reverse video characters render correctly when screen is not
in use is what suggests to me that screen is at fault.
Although I am not an expert on how this all works, I suspect the issue could
be in the termcap perhaps, as running "TERM=rxvt-unicode man ls" within screen
(or TERM=xterm) does show reverse video text correctly. It is only when $TERM
is set to "screen" or "screen-bce" that the formatting is ignored.
If I run "TERM=screen man ls" without screen running then I see the same
problem.
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