Debian Bug report logs - #89222
ncurses-base: broken sgr entry in xterm-xfree86 (and xterm etc.)

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Package: ncurses-base; Maintainer for ncurses-base is Ncurses Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for ncurses-base is src:ncurses (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: [email protected]

Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 07:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 5.2-1

Fixed in version ncurses/5.2.20010310-1

Done: Daniel Jacobowitz <[email protected]>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Subject: Bug#89222: ncurses-base: broken sgr entry in xterm-xfree86 (and xterm etc.)
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 09:51:05PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> In case you're wondering how this bug arose, sgr used to begin:
> 
>     sgr=\E[0%?%p1%p6%|%t;1...
> 
> Back then, the %| was ORing the items pushed by %p1 and %p6.  This
> caused "standout" to be bold (in addition to being inverse), which
> was inconsistent with smso=\E[7m, which says that standout is simply
> inverse.  So whoever removed the %p1 had the right idea, but forgot to
> remove the %| as well.

looks like a copying error (on my part, most likely).
thanks - will check/see if there are other related cases.

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