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Re: Extra spaces



On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:08:26PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > With xterm at least you can set the highlightSelection resource which
> > shows what xterm's selected.  For the applications running in xterm,
> > it depends on the terminal setting (xterm-color is a particularly bad
> > choice), and how closely the application follows it.  screen can be
> > told to use the bce feature which is related to this.
> 
> Except just setting screen to use bce doesn't fix it.  This has bugged
> me for years.  You have to both set "bce on" and use TERM=screen-bce.
> Just setting bce on has no effect, and just using screen-bce will botch
> your display.
> 
>   http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/screen-bce

... not to mention what I'd forgotten since the last time I did this,
which is that the resulting combination doesn't redraw the ends of
lines correctly on screen switch.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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