[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#469251: mcedit: terminal dependent vanishing or chameleon cursor over leading whitespace
A. Costa
agcosta at gis.net
Tue Mar 4 07:48:26 UTC 2008
Package: mc
Version: 1:4.6.2~pre1-5
Severity: normal
Start 'mcedit borked_mcedit.txt' (attached) in 'gnome-terminal'. The
cursor is a white square over the letter 'a'. Press down arrow twice,
the cursor vanishes. Keep pressing down arrow and the cursor reappears
over the 'f'.
In a console, (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2, etc.), the result is different. The
cursor starts as a white underline, and changes to a light blue
underline when over leading whitespace. The light blue cursor against
the dark blue background is not invisible, but is distinctly less
visible.
More testing, summarized in a (monospace font) table:
cursor is...
normal color changing invisible
----------------------------------------------------
gnome-terminal X
console X
konsole X
xterm X
uxterm X
xfterm4 X
rxvt X
Eterm X
(Maybe the invisible cursor is some odd 'gnome-terminal' setting
on my system, or a bug. But the color changing occurs in several
terminals.)
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgpmg1 1.20.3~pre3-2 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii libslang2 2.1.3-2 The S-Lang programming library - r
mc recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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