Control: retitle -1 REP (repeat previous character) escape sequence

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 10:21 PM Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 11:02:13AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > Thanks for your time reading my bug report.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 10:09 AM Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 08:48:20AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > > > Control: affects -1 src:hexedit
> > > >
> > > > Here is the output of:
> > >
> > > neither the original report nor any followup identifies the actual
> > > terminal which is being used.  In addition to that, there is only
>
> But what is the actual terminfo used?
>
> a) a terminal emulator such as KDE konsole (and version)
> b) Linux console
>
> > > a copy/paste from the screen (a "typescript" using "script" would
> > > show what ncurses actually does).
> >
> > I have attached the two generated "typescript" files. One is what I
> > called the good session (setting XTERM to linux) while the other
> > called the bad one is with the default settings.
> ...
> > +|0|
> > +: Esc [ 7 b
> > +& REP: REPEAT
>
> This is the feature mentioned in the FAQ.
> It is in xterm for more than 20 years.

Well spotted ! Thanks much. I'll reassign to the correct package.

> Some xterm look-alikes came much later.
> Programs that don't _try_ to act like xterm probably don't support it.
>
> > > Given the scanty information, this looks like an old report
> > > which was addressed in the FAQ, using a system which hasn't been updated.
> > >
> > > https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#xterm_generic
> >
> > I'll do my best at trying to read and understand this FAQ.
>
> :-)
>
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> Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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