On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 11:41:18AM -0500, George King wrote: > I first started playing around with terminal colors about 5 years ago, > and I recall learning the hard way that Apple Terminal at least > behaves very strangely when you have background colors cross line > boundaries: background colors disappeared when I scrolled lines back > into view. I filed a bug thinking it couldn't be right and Apple > closed it as behaving according to compatibility expectations. I never > figured out whether they had misunderstood my report or if old > terminals were just that crazy. Instead I decided that the safe thing > to do was reset after every line. Perhaps some git author reached the > same conclusion.
Yes, that's exactly it. Certain codes do not do well as they cross lines. It's been long enough that I don't remember the details, and a quick grep of the archive found too many results for me to bother wading through. -Peff
