Re: [PATCH] preparing libcurses for terminfo

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 05:39:38PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
> While you're at it, perhaps you should remove this comment (adjacent
> to your changes), since it's inaccurate (it's not a "bug" in xterm,
> but a design choice - the other choices merely are worse ;-):
> 
>       /*
>        * Work round an xterm bug where inserting lines causes all the
>        * inserted lines to be covered with the background colour we
>        * set on the first line (even if we unset it for subsequent
>        * lines).
>        */

If a real vt100 doesn't do it, it's a bug in xterm... though perhaps not
in how it interacts with curses.