On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 11:00:17AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > I'd suggest you reassign this to gnome-terminal (but since it applies > > to each of the other terminals I mentioned, that would require some > > additional work). > > Thanks for your thorough analysis! I can only imagine you're correct > in pointing out that gnome-terminal and friends are not honoring the > rules of VT10x standards, and I'll clone the bugs against the > implementations you mentionned. My top interest in the bug is to have > grep --color display properly (instead of mangling the output in > standards-compliant terms); do you think a more reasonnable sequence > could be used by grep instead so that I can recommend a proper > implementation when reassigning to grep? At the moment, I can't think of anything except the less-elegant solution of inserting newlines into the text to make it wrap as expected. (It's less elegant since redirecting the text to a file will have the newlines, and also because then grep would have to know the terminal width). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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