Re: color problem on Debian with xterm (putty) at end of lines

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Fery wrote:

> On a Debian unstable system, the 4.5.55-1.2 version of mc worked
> perfectly. (It is compiled with SLang/terminfo). The 4.6.0 version has
> color problems: from the end of a line (e.g. in view) to the right edge
> of the screen the line is not background-colored, but black. I use it
> with 'putty' terminal (xterm-compatible).

It's fixed in the current development version of putty.  If you don't want
to upgrade, select "background color erase" in the putty configuration.

> Now, if I compile the xterm.ti in /usr/share/mc/term, it makes me
> another problems: I have to explicitly specify the '-c' option to make
> colors, or if I set the TERM to 'xterm-color', mc comes up with red and
> yellow colors. I have manually modified the setf/setg capabilities to
> setaf and setag, it now works.

It's a bug in S-Lang.  It was reported and hopefully fixed in the recent
releases (1.4.8, I believe).

You shouldn't need the "-c" option for mc 4.6.0 on terminals with correct
descriptions.

> My question is, why does not work well the 4.6.0 version with the
> terminfo database which was good for 4.5.55?

Version 4.6.0 uses a newer version of S-Lang with background color erase
(bce) support.

If you want to report more problems, please send the output of "mc -V"

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin