From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: adaplas@gmail.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: fix background color on line feed
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:36:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080427193616.9a9cdf85.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0804270257270.20150@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:12:44 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote:
> commit c5180a555ced08a7e3011c16ef796e47569ae907
> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
> Date: Thu Apr 24 22:40:24 2008 +0200
>
> vt: fix background color on line feed
>
> A command that causes a line feed while a background color is active,
> such as
>
> perl -e 'print "x" x 60, "\e[44m", "x" x 40, "\e[0m\n"'
> and
> perl -e 'print "x" x 40, "\e[44m\n", "x" x 40, "\e[0m\n"'
>
> causes the line that was started as a result of the line feed to be
> completely filled with the currently active background color instead
> of the default color.
Thanks.
It would be better if the the changelog were to also describe the cause of
the bug, and how the patch fixes it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-27 1:12 Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-28 2:36 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-04-28 6:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-29 18:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-29 18:28 ` Andrew Morton
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