On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 09:16:31AM +0000, Gordon Russell wrote: > There appears to be a strange bug somewhere in unstable Debian, but I > cannot work out what it is, or which package it is in. > Using either bash or tcsh in an xterm or powerwindow window, running > vi or mutt and then exiting vi or mutt normally will sometimes result > in the cursor position not being restored to the correct location in the > window. This leaves the window looking very messy, although easily fixed > by using ^L in the window to clear the screen. This has to do with the terminfo codes used for the SMCUP and RMCUP capabilities. I need to talk to Tom Dickey (upstream xterm maintainer) about whether we should change those. He fixed this bug a while back in the XFree86 3.9 series xterms but may not have backported it to 3.3.x. The xterm* terminfo files are in the ncurses-base package. The uncompiled terminfo file that I submitted to the ncurses maintainer can be found in /usr/share/doc/xterm. What he uses is not supposed to differ from what I send him (since I maintain the xterm program itself, I can better keep track of when changes to its terminal definition need to take place), but I think someone harassed him into changing something else. I've since asked him to reassign bugs in the xterm terminfo descriptions to the xterm package, so I can deal with them. The current xterm termtype policy is also described in /usr/share/doc/xterm. Be sure to check version 3.3.6-3 of the package. (-4 is forthcoming.) -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | The noble soul has reverence for itself. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Friedrich Nietzsche roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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