Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.6.1-1 Severity: wishlist When looking at new packages, I often copy the homepage URL from the extended description area into a browser window using Screen's copy mechanism (^A[). I place the cursor over the start of the URL, press ^M to set the mark, then use the vi-style $ binding to move the cursor to the end of the line and press ^M again to add the region to the clipboard.
Unfortunately, even when the entire extended description fits onscreen, there is a one-character wide hatched character down the extreme right of the extended description area. This means that instead of say, http://live.gnome.org/gbrainy the clipboard contains http://live.gnome.org/gbrainy ▒ I don't understand the purpose of this border character, but it looks like it's intended to act as a scroll bar when the description area doesn't all fit onscreen at once. Is it possible to disable this "scroll bar", or to hide it when the entire extended description fits onscreen at once? -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6 0.7.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.6.1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-5 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.6+20070908-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.6.1-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-1 parse Debian changelogs and output -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]