Re: [PATCH] vt: fix background color on line feed

[Andrew Morton]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:12:44 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> commit c5180a555ced08a7e3011c16ef796e47569ae907
> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Apr 24 22:40:24 2008 +0200
> 
> vt: fix background color on line feed
>     
> A command that causes a line feed while a background color is active,
> such as
>     
> 	perl -e 'print "x" x 60, "\e[44m", "x" x 40, "\e[0m\n"'
> and
> 	perl -e 'print "x" x 40, "\e[44m\n", "x" x 40, "\e[0m\n"'
>     
> causes the line that was started as a result of the line feed to be
> completely filled with the currently active background color instead
> of the default color.

Thanks.

It would be better if the the changelog were to also describe the cause of
the bug, and how the patch fixes it.

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