A script that reproduces the bug:
``` #!/bin/bash # the bug sometimes fails to reproduce if the tty is not empty: reset # set color: echo -n $'\033[44m' # move into the position: echo -n $'\033[5;43H' sleep 1 # display a gap surrounded by 2 colored characters: echo -n '.' sleep 1 echo -n $'\t' sleep 1 echo -n '.' sleep 1 # move the cursor into the gap. Notice how ridiculously wide the cursor # becomes. echo -n $'\033[5;44H' sleep 1 # display a colored character in the gap. Notice how the entire gap # changes color. echo -n '.' sleep 1 ``` This behavor does not match other terminals and is not expected by NCurses. The conditions for the bug are rather rare but they do happen. For example, if an application displays a menu as a 2-column table with the right column starting at a tab stop, and only highlights the left column (+ 1 space around it) of the focused line but not the right one, this often makes the focus leave garbage between columns in its wake. NCurses first draws the line unfocused, skipping over the gap using tabs, then redraws the left column and the first space in the gap with the focused colors (making urxvt unexpectedly recolor the gap), and then, as the focus moves on, redraws it again uncolored, but this time around that first space of the gap is not longer part of the tabulation and does not repeat the bug, leaving the gap still colored as though it's focused. _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
