[Aptitude-devel] Bug#317928: aptitude: visual mode does not check terminal capabilities

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi,

2005-07-12 14:16 Sven Joachim:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.2.15.9-2
>Severity: normal
>
>Aptitude fails to check if the terminal has the necessary capabilities
>when entering visual mode. I.e. it will happily start the visual
>interface on a dumb terminal, that is in an Emacs shell buffer. It is
>not really usable then :-( and has to be killed. That's not so much of
>a problem if aptitude was started without a command-line action, but
>becomes really annoying if the user first invokes aptitude in
>command-line mode and later tries to enter visual mode at a prompt.

Thanks for the report, Sven.

Fix commited, so marking as +pending.

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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>