Re: [PATCH] vt: fix background color on line feed

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Monday 2008-04-28 08:46, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>On Monday 2008-04-28 04:36, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> commit c5180a555ced08a7e3011c16ef796e47569ae907
>>> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date:   Thu Apr 24 22:40:24 2008 +0200
>>> 
>>> vt: fix background color on line feed
>>>     
>>> A command that causes a line feed while a background color is active,
>>> such as
>>>     
>>> 	perl -e 'print "x" x 60, "\e[44m", "x" x 40, "\e[0m\n"'
>>> and
>>> 	perl -e 'print "x" x 40, "\e[44m\n", "x" x 40, "\e[0m\n"'
>>>     
>>> causes the line that was started as a result of the line feed to be
>>> completely filled with the currently active background color instead
>>> of the default color.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>It would be better if the the changelog were to also describe the cause of
>>the bug, and how the patch fixes it.
>>
>Please append:
>[...]

I think your mailer has whitespace problems -- all whitespaces
got replaced by two, even intrasentence after an "e.g."  :-P
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