Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:02:20 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: hackers@freebsd.org, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Subject: Re: SYSCONS PROBLEM IDENTIFIED Message-ID: <aBC3aNmuF0@ache.dialup.demos.ru> In-Reply-To: <199509190208.TAA09038@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert at Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:08:02 -0700 (MST) References: <199509190208.TAA09038@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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In message <199509190208.TAA09038@phaeton.artisoft.com> Terry Lambert
writes:
>About a week ago, someone was complaining that when an attribute bit
>was set and you cleared the screen, that the whole screen went to
>that attribute.
>Well, the problem is that the attribute state implys a fg/bg color
>state change; in reality, the fg/bg color state should be kept seperate
>from the attribute state, even if it implies a color state change.
>That is, the clear sreen/area/character operations on a console should
>take the color into account as if the attributes were at state 0 instead
>of using the altered color table.
I completely disagree:
1) It is longstanding SYSV console tradition clear all with attribute.
2) ncurses package takes advantage of this feature when
filling screen with color instead of putting spaces.
--
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