Hi, Micah!
* Micah Cowan [2011-08-12 20:36]:
> > Question remains whether it's STFL's or curses' fault to use bce
> > though it's not advertised...
> Curses would definitely know better (at least, if it's ncurses). My
> money'd be on STFL.
Solved the issue... it was not STFL's problem, neither
(08/12/2011 11:32 AM), Julius Plenz wrote:
> Hi, Micah!
>
> * Micah Cowan [2011-08-12 20:19]:
>> IIRC, screen _can_ support it, if the host terminal does.
>
> True, setting "bce on" from within screen works just fine. Question
> remains whether it's STFL's or curses' fault to use bce though it's
(08/12/2011 11:07 AM), Julius Plenz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm not quite sure what to make of this. Both screen and tmux won't
> handle terminfo's "el" and "ed" (clear to end of line/display) the way
> I think it should work. Consider:
>
> echo `tput setab 2`foo`tput el`"\r"
>
> I would expect to
Hi, Micah!
* Micah Cowan [2011-08-12 20:19]:
> IIRC, screen _can_ support it, if the host terminal does.
True, setting "bce on" from within screen works just fine. Question
remains whether it's STFL's or curses' fault to use bce though it's
not advertised...
Thanks,
Julius
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This is called background-colour-erase (BCE) and is not supported by
tmux.
Applications should not depend on this behaviour unless the bce flag
capability is in the terminfo description and for TERM=screen it is not:
$ infocmp -x xterm|grep bce
OTbs, am, bce, km, mc5i, mir, msgr, npc, xen
Hi!
I'm not quite sure what to make of this. Both screen and tmux won't
handle terminfo's "el" and "ed" (clear to end of line/display) the way
I think it should work. Consider:
echo `tput setab 2`foo`tput el`"\r"
I would expect to find the line cleared (and colored!) until the end.
In XTerm
Hi!
Since tmux supports chaining commands via \; already, I find it a pity
tmux cannot handle any sort of line continuation as far as I can see.
The patch below implements this feature: lines ending with a single
backslash will trigger the next line to be read in also. Thus, it's
possible to spli
Hi, Tiago!
* Tiago Resende [2011-08-11 21:13]:
> >a) standout mode is now italics mode
> >b) italics mode produces "normal" font (ie. it's not recognized)
> I can only reproduce this without setting terminal-overrides. Keep
> in mind it will only take effect when you open a new i