Two problems still present in RC3

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at MIT.EDU
Wed Dec 14 06:10:12 UTC 2011


On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 12:34 PM 12/13/2011, Ben Kaduk wrote:
>
>> If I remember correctly, your original message mentioned seeing this
>> issue in emacs; have you tried reproducing it in a simpler test case?
>
> No; when we hit the bug, we moved to SSH with a VT100 emulator so that
> we could configure the system. But the system console really should work
> as well. I expect to be configuring another system this evening and will

Definitely!  I use the system console pretty regularly, but I just haven't 
gotten a chance to pull my laptop up to an RC or -current, recently, so I 
can't test it myself.

> try the script fragment you sent.

Thanks.  (It turns out one has to consult terminfo(5) to figure out what 
attributes to pass in to tput; it might be worth adding an EXAMPLES 
section to tput(1).)

-Ben


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