On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:23:11PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > Note the "\E+". That's an error (in psmisc, since it has no reason to > > generate > > something like that). There's no such escape sequence. > > Hmm, this looks more and more related to bug #265553 then. As I explain > there, psmisc generates a line including escape sequences, and then truncates > it to fit in the width of the screen. It adds this "+" to indicate the > line was chopped. Since it doesn't take the escape sequences into > account, the lines are often truncated at much shorter than $COLUMNS > displayable characters, and also it could chop a line in the middle of > an escape sequence, as it seems to have done here.
right - part of the width computation assumes the output is UTF-8. I didn't notice anything more complicated than that (which would be needed to distinguish the embedded escape sequences from the actual text). > If that sounds right, I'll reassign this bug to psmisc and merge it with > #265553. I should have thought that when one finds two strange things, > they're often related.. yes - that sounds correct. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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