Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:36:16 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vt: fix background color on line feed |
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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.
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