Debian Bug report logs - #541236
xterm: word selection selects whitespace characters too

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: xterm: word selection selects whitespace characters too

Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:14:23 +0200

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Package: xterm
Version: 244-1
Severity: normal

Under some conditions, a word selection selects whitespace characters
too. This problem seems to be new.

To reproduce the problem, I've attached a file. As said in this file:

1. Open this file in a 80x60 xterm terminal.
2. Do a Page Down.
3. Double-click on a "aa...aa" (but not one of the first five).
   -> The previous "bb...bb" gets selected too.
4. Resize the xterm window to 80x58. -> The window disappear!

(Step 4 seems to be actually bug 541160: xterm segfaults.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.9-24         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1            2.6.0-4        generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.5-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090803-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.2.2-1      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   2:1.0.6-1      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxft2                   2.1.13-3       FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   2:1.0.4-2      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.5-3      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                  1.0.1-2        Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  x11-utils                     7.4+1      X11 utilities
ii  xutils                        1:7.4+3    X Window System utility programs m

Versions of packages xterm suggests:
ii  xfonts-cyrillic               1:1.0.0-7  Cyrillic fonts for X

-- no debconf information

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: xterm: word selection selects whitespace characters too

Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:29:20 +0200

On 2009-08-12 19:14:23 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Under some conditions, a word selection selects whitespace characters
> too. This problem seems to be new.

Indeed, I've reverted to xterm 243-1, and I cannot reproduce the bug
with this older version.

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Message #13 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: re: #541160 xterm: heap corruption when changing window size

Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:05:39 -0400

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...just bad timing (I'm now looking to see the problem).  A short-term fix
should be to configure/build xterm using --disable-fifo-lines

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Message #18 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julien Cristau <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Bug#541236: fixed in xterm 244-2

Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:10:48 +0000

Source: xterm
Source-Version: 244-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xterm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

xterm_244-2.diff.gz
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_244-2.diff.gz
xterm_244-2.dsc
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_244-2.dsc
xterm_244-2_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_244-2_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
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Julien Cristau <[email protected]> (supplier of updated xterm package)

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:25:16 +0200
Source: xterm
Binary: xterm
Architecture: source i386
Version: 244-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Julien Cristau <[email protected]>
Description: 
 xterm      - X terminal emulator
Closes: 541109 541132 541160 541236
Changes: 
 xterm (244-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Configure with --disable-fifo-lines to work around a crash in the new
     saved-lines handling code (closes: #541236, #541160, #541132, #541109).
     Thanks to Thomas Dickey for the workaround.
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Message #23 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#541236 closed by Julien Cristau <[email protected]> (Bug#541236: fixed in xterm 244-2)

Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:02:29 +0200

reopen 541236
found 541236 xterm/244-2
thanks

On 2009-08-12 22:39:39 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> #541236: xterm: word selection selects whitespace characters too
[...]

This bug isn't fixed either.

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Message #32 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: re: #541236 xterm: word selection selects whitespace characters too

Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:53:52 -0400

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Here's a copy of current changes for #246, which includes a fix for this bug.

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Message #40 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>

To: [email protected], [email protected]

Cc: [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#541236: #541236 xterm: word selection selects whitespace characters too

Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:26:45 +0200

tags 541236 patch
thanks

On 2009-08-14 20:53:52 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Here's a copy of current changes for #246, which includes a fix for this bug.

Thanks, I've tested it and it indeed fixes this bug.

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Message #55 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>

To: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#541236: #541236 xterm: word selection selects whitespace characters too

Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:02:23 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> tags 541236 patch
> thanks
>
> On 2009-08-14 20:53:52 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Here's a copy of current changes for #246, which includes a fix for this bug.
>
> Thanks, I've tested it and it indeed fixes this bug.
>
no problem (I don't know why my copy of 'less' doesn't seem to exercise
xterm in a manner to show the bug).

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Message #68 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>

To: Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#541236: #541236 xterm: word selection selects whitespace characters too

Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:01:19 +0200

On 2009-08-15 10:02:23 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> no problem (I don't know why my copy of 'less' doesn't seem to
> exercise xterm in a manner to show the bug).

If you mean this bug 541236, then try with LESS="-c".

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Message #81 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>

To: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#541236: #541236 xterm: word selection selects whitespace characters too

Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:08:12 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2009-08-15 10:02:23 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> no problem (I don't know why my copy of 'less' doesn't seem to
>> exercise xterm in a manner to show the bug).
>
> If you mean this bug 541236, then try with LESS="-c".

hadn't tried that, but tried it now without any change (not really 
important).  I'd like to isolate the core dump though...

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Message #94 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: re: #541236 xterm: word selection selects whitespace characters too

Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:34:59 -0400

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fixed in patch #246

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Message #103 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julien Cristau <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Bug#541236: fixed in xterm 246-1

Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:47:32 +0000

Source: xterm
Source-Version: 246-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xterm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

xterm_246-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_246-1.diff.gz
xterm_246-1.dsc
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_246-1.dsc
xterm_246-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_246-1_amd64.deb
xterm_246.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_246.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Julien Cristau <[email protected]> (supplier of updated xterm package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Version: 246-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Julien Cristau <[email protected]>
Description: 
 xterm      - X terminal emulator
Closes: 531597 541089 541160 541236 541603
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 .
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       resources clarified in manpage (closes: #531597)
     + remove obsolete logic for saving/restoring wrapping flags, which did not
       work on 64-bit platform.  Wrapping flags (stored in the line-index) are
       now copied with line-data (closes: #541160)
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       preprocessor used by xrdb (closes: #541603)
     + restore special case in makeColorPair needed for colorBDMode resource
       (closes: #541089)
     + correct SetLineFlags() macro, broken in patch #244 when recoding to
       avoid gcc-specific bitfields (closes: #541236)
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