Re: ANN: terminfo-20140607.src.gz

[Christian Ebert]

* 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.

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