hello I actually don't know if this is a real problem with 5.1-alpha or if it's something related to my environment and/or build procedure
The problem is the following If I paste in a terminal running 5.1-alpha a string stored in the primary X selection, the string is inserted in reverse video (actually, not a big problem, since I'm not experiencing any other additional malfunction...) I'm not in the position to debug this. I can just add some empirical observations I have done about it: => no problem whatsoever if I run bash-5.0 (pl17) (everything else unchanged) => the problem doesn't seem to depend on the particular terminal program: xterm (my usual terminal), mlterm, vte (terminals I have at hand) => the problem goes away if I set the value of the TERM variable to something different from "xterm"; even unsetting TERM altogether fixes things => the problem goes away if I run screen in the terminal (this is probably related to the point above, as screen changes the TERM variable from "xterm" to "screen") => no problem if I'm not running X, eg if I make a selection and paste it with gpm in a console (again: TERM=linux in this case) On the whole, it looks to me that the problem might be related (in some way) to the interaction of 5.1-alpha with the terminal program when TERM=xterm Possibly related to this thread? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2020-06/msg00066.html Apologies: as I said, my knowledge is insufficient to let me go deeper than this I enclose "stty -a" and bash build information below, if that can be of any help thanks a lot ciao -gabriele ----8<---- Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc -m64 Compilation CFLAGS: -I/usr/Xorg/include uname output: Linux dschgrazlin2 5.7.3 #1 SMP Thu Jun 18 09:18:36 CEST 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Bash Version: 5.1 Patch Level: 0 Release Status: alpha ---->8---- ----8<---- dschgrazlin2:17> stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; discard = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb -parodd -cmspar cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel iutf8 opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt -echoctl echoke -flusho -extproc ---->8----
