On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 10:54:09PM -0700, Parke wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 5:24 PM Thomas Dickey > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is this expected and intentional? (To me it seems unexpected and > > > surprising.) > > > > no - referring to > > > > 20210925 > > + modify tput to allow multiple commands per line. > > Thank you for the reply. > > My apologies for failing to include version numbers. > > I originally tested on Ubuntu 24.04. I have now also tested on Ubuntu 25.10. > > On Ubuntu 24.04, the unexpected behavior is present. > The package is: > ncurses-bin 6.4+20240113-1ubuntu2 > > On Ubuntu 25.10, tput behaves correctly. > The package is: > ncurses-bin 6.5+20250216-2build1 > > So it appears the problem was fixed at some point prior to 6.5+20250216.
bisecting gives this:
20250104
+ modify tput to warn about capabilities which expect parameters where
none are given; also repair the feature where multiple capabilities
can be handled on a single line.
(last night I was looking at the code in tput.c which implements multiple
capabilities without noticing the tie-in to missing capabilities)
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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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