On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:40:45PM +0100, Petar Bogdanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> only changes the background colour of a few characters (the bash
> prompt). The more I type, the more gets blue and as soon as I do a
> backspace or try to resize the terminal, the whole line gets blue.
bash/readline does rather interesting things in an effort to optimise
bandwidth usage (and avoid relying on window size knowledge and stuff).
> What I would expect (and I'm probably wrong here too, but hopefully not
> _that_ wrong) is, that my whole terminal turns blue as soon as it reads
> the control sequence `^[[44m'. I can achieve this, however, by pressing
> <enter> until I reach the bottom of the terminal where it starts to
> generate `new' blue lines or simply by clearing the screen with `clear'.
>
> Maybe thats the way the old VT100 works..?
That's the way terminals with bce (see terminfo(5)) work. Basically,
that means the temrinal doesn't prefer a magic colour but treats colours
"fairly", which helps librraies such as curses.
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