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

[Fery <engard ferenc innomed hu>]

Hello,

Pavel Roskin 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.

Thank you for the helpful information. Setting the option above solved
the problem (although using to today's snapshot didn't change anything).

Circum

PS: just a personal question, not for debate: why SLang is used instead
of ncurses?