[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#563625: Bug#563625: cursor disappears when visible-tabs are used in mc-edit

[Drew Parsons]

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 09:31 +0100, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 18:03 +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> 
> > ... and so mc fails to run with the given workaround. There is no such
> > gnome-256color terminfo.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Actually this workaround doesn't work at all, that's why I removed it
> from the new version of the package to be uploaded soon. The real fix is
> to patch VTE, which I did for my Ubuntu PPA and updated the bug against
> upstream, but it's around for like 3 years already and they are not
> really determined to fix it.
> 

It's an extremely annoying situation.  Will the VTE patch be applied to
Debian's version?

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 04:55 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: 
> gnome-256color isn't in ncurses-base, but is in ncurses-term.

Ah ok, thanks Thomas.

I notice that ncurses-base does have xterm-256color, and it fixes (works
around) the cursor problem the same way that gnome-256color from
ncurses-term does.  

In fact xterm-256color is probably a little saner, since I notice if I
use gnome-256color, that there's a side-effect where mc outputs "Press
any key to continue..." and halts waiting for a key, when I run an
aliased cd command to a specific directory.  Very annoying.

I suggest the best thing for us in the short term is to keep the advice
in README.Debian, but refer to xterm-256color rather than
gnome-256color.  

That would save having to pull in the extra ncurses package, and it
works better anyway.  (or did you mean, Yury, that xterm-256color does
not fix the problem in the new version either?)

(maybe a better solution still would be to remove gnome-terminal from
the archives altogether??? ;)  )


Drew