Bug#337014: zile: Odd output when quitting editor

Reuben Thomas rrt at sc3d.org
Sun Feb 26 13:36:08 UTC 2006


On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Loïc Minier wrote:

>        Hi,
>
> This is a followup for Debian bug <http://bugs.debian.org/337014>.
>
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2005, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>> Whenever I quit zile I get odd output like this:
>>> stephen at jupiter:~$ zile
>>> [?1036;lstephen at jupiter:~$
>>> Note the '[?1036;l' before my standard prompt.
>> This string is the one that Zile outputs in term_close in term_ncurses.c
>> to reset the Meta key in an xterm. It only happens if TERM=xterm. Which
>> terminal emulator are you using? I'm guessing it's something that claims
>> to be xterm but doesn't understand this sequence...sigh...
>
> The bug reports state that a workaround was added to zile, can someone
> give me the raw sequence (preferably in the form of an "echo ..." line
> for me to reproduce the bug?

The raw sequence was:
printf("\033[?1036;l");     /* Reset Meta key */


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