Re: ANN: terminfo-20140607.src.gz

[Christian Ebert]

* Christian Ebert on Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 06:09:30 +0100
> * Thomas Dickey on Monday, June 09, 2014 at 17:51:25 -0400
>> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 02:42:47PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 03:14:38PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
>>>> hello
>>>> 
>>>>> At a first glance this seems to have broken piping colored output to less
>>>>> - e.g. in git diff. After quitting less screen term is in reverse
>>>>> video like the "END" marker of the less output.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sorry for the vague description, I don't have time to look into
>>>>> it more closely atm.
>>>> 
>>>> same misbehavior here (bad interaction screen <--> less with exactly the
>>>> same symptoms)
>>> 
>>> thanks - I see this - for TERM=screen-bce
> 
> Hm. I only have TERM=screen-256color set, no bce as far as I know of.
> 
>>> (normally I end up using TERM=screen-bce.xterm-new, which is working fine)
>>> 
>>> will investigate/fix...
>> 
>> did that.  It was a problem with screen which I'd forgotten about
>> (largely from having read/understood that part of the code _long_ ago,
>> before italics became an issue).
>> 
>> So... I reverted that part, and propped up screen in some additional
>> places.  And I wrote a nice long explanation in the entry to help avoid
>> the temptation to go that way.
> 
> That was fast! Thank you.
> 
> This fixes the problem for me in screen. However, tmux now has a
> similar problem with italics. Maybe it has something builtin
> meant as a workaround which now fails.

ncurses-5.9-20140524 behaves fine - or at least without any
glitch that I am able to notice.

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