Your message dated Sun, 9 Aug 2009 11:05:16 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line closing has caused the Debian Bug report #469251, regarding mcedit: terminal dependent vanishing or chameleon cursor over leading whitespace to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---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 informationa b c d e f
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--- Begin Message ---Hey, After speaking with other guys from upstream the behaviour that the cursor changes the color is intended. What is not intended is that it vanishes on a gnome-terminal (which is indeed a bug in gnome-terminal, not in mcedit). As a hotfix for this set your export this variable. export TERM="gnome-256color" This hotfix is now also mentioned in README.Debian, I hope this satisfied everybody. Greetings Winnie
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