On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:27:02AM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > > Can you file a bug report to the xterm people? > > I don't think it's a bug in xterm. Nroff emits <ESC>[40m codes, > which normally means "set background color to black", and this > is exactly what xterm is doing. > > Pipe the output through "sed -e 's/40m/41m/g'" before viewing > (this changes the background from black to red) to illustrate > this. >
thanks. did'nt know enough about the escape sequences to see that myself. that, too, makes it more understandable that the other terminal emulators just behaved the same (except, seemingly, werner's kde `konsole'?). so, that's back to square one, then? is it a bug in grotty? werner? joerg
