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Bug#750733: Newest version sets the foreground to the background color in some cases



On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 01:04:09PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 09:57:52AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> > Am Fr den  6. Jun 2014 um 21:48 schrieb Thomas Dickey:
> > [color problem in xterm]
> > > In a quick check, I'm not able to reproduce this.
> > > It might be related to the actual colors chosen (I tried white-on-black
> > > and black-on-white), some other part of your xterm resources (if you've
> > > customized), or even the escape sequences that you might have in your
> > > bash prompt.
> > 
> > With the help of Axel (abe@debian.org), we was able to track this down.
> > If you start xterm with "-font 5x8" and use colortest, you can see, that
> > (at least with light background and dark foreground) all bold face
> > colors have the same color than the background.
> 
> actually I don't see it with the "colortest" which I know about
> (not my script...)
> 
> But I can see what you're (probably) referring to using the 16colors.sh script
> from xterm.
> 
> will investigate/fix...

I see the problem (a too-generous fix for fdo #15979).  I'll amend that...

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