Bug#541236: xterm: word selection selects whitespace characters too
Package: xterm
Version: 244-1
Severity: normal
Under some conditions, a word selection selects whitespace characters
too. This problem seems to be new.
To reproduce the problem, I've attached a file. As said in this file:
1. Open this file in a 80x60 xterm terminal.
2. Do a Page Down.
3. Double-click on a "aa...aa" (but not one of the first five).
-> The previous "bb...bb" gets selected too.
4. Resize the xterm window to 80x58. -> The window disappear!
(Step 4 seems to be actually bug 541160: xterm segfaults.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-24 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library
ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxft2 2.1.13-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xbitmaps 1.0.1-2 Base X bitmaps
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.4+1 X11 utilities
ii xutils 1:7.4+3 X Window System utility programs m
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
ii xfonts-cyrillic 1:1.0.0-7 Cyrillic fonts for X
-- no debconf information
1. Open this file in a 80x60 xterm terminal.
2. Do a Page Down.
3. Double-click on a "aa...aa" (but not one of the first five).
-> The previous "bb...bb" gets selected too.
4. Resize the xterm window to 80x58. -> The window disappear!
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