Bug#276345: copy-paste troubles with the first line of a less
Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sat, Oct 23, 2004: Talking about something that appears when less is run (is this using xterm's alternate screen? Probably). The alternate screen buffer is only as large as the terminal window. The normal (with scrollback) is much larger. So bugs that hit a boundary are more likely to happen with the alternate screen buffer. (I don't use the alternate screen much, so it's mainly other people who would notice a problem with it). That's interesting. I hope I'll find a way to reproduce the problem soon. Thanks, -- Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#276345: copy-paste troubles with the first line of a less
Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Fri, Oct 22, 2004: On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:20:04PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2004-10-13 16:34:42 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: [...] FYI, I reported this bug to Thomas on 2002-03-08. Vincent Lefevre reported on 2002-03-08, and I reported on 2004-10-13, and you're quoting: It might only be a similar bug. Here are two that are in the same general area: Patch #183 - 2003/12/26 - XFree86 4.3.99.903 Patch #167 - 2002/8/24 - XFree86 4.2.0 I don't how this couls relate to the first of the second patch, I still get the problem randomly anyway. Are you suggesting you might reverse these patches? Or do you want someone to look at the patches and check wether they introduced new bugs? Regards, -- Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#276345: copy-paste troubles with the first line of a less
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 09:42:10PM +0200, Loc Minier wrote: Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Fri, Oct 22, 2004: On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:20:04PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2004-10-13 16:34:42 +0200, Lo?c Minier wrote: [...] FYI, I reported this bug to Thomas on 2002-03-08. Vincent Lefevre reported on 2002-03-08, and I reported on 2004-10-13, and you're quoting: It might only be a similar bug. Here are two that are in the same general area: Patch #183 - 2003/12/26 - XFree86 4.3.99.903 Patch #167 - 2002/8/24 - XFree86 4.2.0 I don't how this couls relate to the first of the second patch, I still The symptoms sound similar - in the fixes there were places where data was referenced outside the screen buffer. get the problem randomly anyway. Are you suggesting you might reverse these patches? Or do you want someone to look at the patches and check wether they introduced new bugs? no - I was just pointing out that the particular bug Vincent was talking about might have been fixed. Reviewing patches doesn't help much unless you know exactly what you're looking for (I mainly do that to see when a change was made and what the corresponding log comments are). It's likely that it only appears randomly because the conditions for reproducing the bug are not well understood. Talking about something that appears when less is run (is this using xterm's alternate screen? Probably). The alternate screen buffer is only as large as the terminal window. The normal (with scrollback) is much larger. So bugs that hit a boundary are more likely to happen with the alternate screen buffer. (I don't use the alternate screen much, so it's mainly other people who would notice a problem with it). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpSNxRSMD6It.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#276345: copy-paste troubles with the first line of a less
On 2004-10-13 16:34:42 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: It's been some months now that I repeatedly get a strange problem with a less in xterm: if I select the first line of the xterm window, being the first line of the less dump too, I am pasting some sort of buffered data too, coming from previous lines of output. FYI, I reported this bug to Thomas on 2002-03-08. -- Vincent Lefèvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Web: http://www.vinc17.org/ 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: http://www.vinc17.org/blog/ Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
Bug#276345: copy-paste troubles with the first line of a less
Package: xterm Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Severity: normal Hi, It's been some months now that I repeatedly get a strange problem with a less in xterm: if I select the first line of the xterm window, being the first line of the less dump too, I am pasting some sort of buffered data too, coming from previous lines of output. Say I have done a grep -r foo bar | less, and copy-paste the first line of the xterm (bar/xyz.c: ...), I get what I've selected plus some preprended text (blahblahbar/xyz.c: ...). This happens when I select one or multiple lines or one or multiple words including the upper left word in the less in xterm. It DOESN'T happen when I select character-wise (single-clicking instead of double- or triple-clicking). I can't reproduce deterministically but once I get it, it always happen with the same display. Restarting the less usually clears things up. I think I already got the problem with vim a while ago, but I'm not copy-pasting so much from vim, either to it. I believe it's a but in the copy-paste word selection of xterm wich doesn't check if the characters selected are displayed and goes out of bound, but I can believe it is caused by improper terminal handling by less. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig12.2.3-1generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsm64.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Athena widget set library ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.2-6FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X pixmap library ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt64.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m ii xlibs-data4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client data -- no debconf information Regards, -- Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
