On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 11:02:13AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Thanks for your time reading my bug report.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 10:09 AM Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 08:48:20AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > > Control: affects -1 src:hexedit
> > >
> > > Here is the output of:
> >
> > neither the original report nor any followup identifies the actual
> > terminal which is being used.  In addition to that, there is only

But what is the actual terminfo used?

a) a terminal emulator such as KDE konsole (and version)
b) Linux console

> > a copy/paste from the screen (a "typescript" using "script" would
> > show what ncurses actually does).
> 
> I have attached the two generated "typescript" files. One is what I
> called the good session (setting XTERM to linux) while the other
> called the bad one is with the default settings.
...
> +|0|
> +: Esc [ 7 b
> +& REP: REPEAT

This is the feature mentioned in the FAQ.
It is in xterm for more than 20 years.

Some xterm look-alikes came much later.
Programs that don't _try_ to act like xterm probably don't support it.

> > Given the scanty information, this looks like an old report
> > which was addressed in the FAQ, using a system which hasn't been updated.
> >
> > https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#xterm_generic
> 
> I'll do my best at trying to read and understand this FAQ.

:-)

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