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From: Eric Lilja <mindcooler AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:  Re: Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page
Date:  Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:26:00 +0100
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Dave Korn skrev:
> On 14 December 2006 17:43, Eric Lilja wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>> By chance, I noticed that if I view bash's man page and then press 'q'
>> to exit man, the prompt is colored more brightly than it is by default.
>> If I press enter the prompt is restored to its normal appearance. A
>> picture exhibiting this cosmetic glith can be viewed at
>> student.stunet.se/hivemind/weird_cosmetic_bug.png
> 
>   Does 'stty sane' restore normal operation?

Well, I issued:
$ stty sane
$ man bash
q
..and still the same color change as exhibitedby the picutre. I hope I 
ran the test as you wanted. I hadn't used the command stty before.

> 
>> cygcheck.out attached. Am I the only one seeing this? If not, is it a
>> cosmetic bug or expected? I have made some changes to .bashrc, I can
>> post that to if needed but it's really just a few aliases.
> 
>   If you have a coloured prompt, it could be a consequence of that interacting
> with the readline bug.  I don't see it here with the following versions:
> 
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version        Status
> bash                 3.1-8          OK
> cygwin               1.5.19-4       OK
> man                  1.5p-1         OK
> 
> 
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK

- Eric


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