Re: tin may ignore ncursesw (tin modifies terminal settings)

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, clemens fischer wrote:

> I wrote, also in [1] about the same problem:
>
>> When I use "rtin", all the color settings affect only where "tin" writes
>> text, everything else is left at the current default colors.  I always
>> thought this to be tin specific, but I am not so sure anymore, because
>> after exiting "rtin", the same behaviour persists in "bash" as well!
>> I didn't notice until now, because tin runs always in its own
>> tmux/screen managed window which closes after "rtin" exits.
...
> I found that the binary links to /lib/libncursesw.so.5.7 (on arch-linux)
> but apparently doesn't use all its entry points:

The first case is the termcap/terminfo interface, which isn't as clever as
(n)curses in painting the proper text on the screen.  What you're 
describing sounds like a mismatch between the program/terminal for the
"background color erase" feature.

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