ansi escape sequences and line wrapping

[Marc Lehmann]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:01:40PM +0100, Petar Bogdanovic <petar at smokva.net> wrote:
> But why does the colouring depend on the position?

Your question is illogical: since colouring doesn't depend on position, it
does not have an answer.

Colouring solely depends on the currently select rendition style, which
includes the currently selected foreground and background colours.

> At least that would be somehow consistent with my observation where I
> can change the background of the string `aufnehmen' but the rest of the
> line is still blue when printed at the bottom:

You don't explain how you arrive at that result, so I cannot comment on
whether it should be that way or not.

Since you apparently base your conclusions on a wrong assumption
(positon-dependency of colouring), it is probably wrong, too.

>    http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/1816/term3kl1.png
> 
> Also the last line looses the `filling' immediately when I resize the
> terminal, so I guess a resize makes the terminal redraw everything..

Resizing isn't part of any standard, so an implementation was chosen that
is minimally-invasive to existing applications.

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