Re: color curses leakage

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2026 at 11:58:04AM -0500, Chuck Cranor wrote:
> hi-
> 
>     I'm seeing issues with pkgsrc mail/mutt under NetBSD 11
> displaying text with the wrong colors.  The terminal/xterm
> default colors are leaking through in places where they are
> not supposed to!   If I recompile mail/mutt to use ncurses,
> then it displays properly -- so the bugs are in NetBSD libcurses.
> 

Aha, I have had others complain about the same thing but hadn't figured
out what was going on.

>     Working with NetBSD libcurses from trunk, I've tracked the
> the issue down to two main issues:
> 
>  - the handling of "orig_pair" in color.c
>  - the handling of "exit_attribute_mode" in refresh.c
> 
> I have fixes for both that I'm hoping someone more familiar
> with NetBSD curses can double check so we can get this fixed.
> 

Your reasoning is sound and the diff looks correct with a quick reading.
I can have a closer look and do some testing in a couple of days.  If
all is well I will commit the changes and request some pull ups.

Thanks for digging in to this.

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Brett Lymn
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