Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:28:10 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vt: fix background color on line feed |
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:17:26 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
> > On Monday 2008-04-28 08:46, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >On Monday 2008-04-28 04:36, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>> commit c5180a555ced08a7e3011c16ef796e47569ae907 > >>> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> > >>> Date: Thu Apr 24 22:40:24 2008 +0200 > >>> > >>> vt: fix background color on line feed > >>> > >>> A command that causes a line feed while a background color is active, > >>> such as > >>> > >>> perl -e 'print "x" x 60, "\e[44m", "x" x 40, "\e[0m\n"' > >>> and > >>> perl -e 'print "x" x 40, "\e[44m\n", "x" x 40, "\e[0m\n"' > >>> > >>> causes the line that was started as a result of the line feed to be > >>> completely filled with the currently active background color instead > >>> of the default color. > >> > >>Thanks. > >> > >>It would be better if the the changelog were to also describe the cause of > >>the bug, and how the patch fixes it. > >> > >Please append: > >[...] > > I think your mailer has whitespace problems -- all whitespaces > got replaced by two,
That's the default (ie: only ;)) behaviour of my editor's reformat-paragraph command.
> even intrasentence after an "e.g." :-P
Perhaps I should fix that. Only I wrote it, umm, 22 years ago and forget how it works.
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