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

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