Re: BUG: Colorize background of whitespace

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/25/23 10:48 AM, David wrote:

> The bug being reported is that the '\t' characters have a black background
> if the 'seq' argument is low enough that its lines 1 and 2 remain
> visible when run.

Bash and readline don't do anything with terminal foreground colors and
background colors except under certain circumstances like bracketed-paste.
If you're pasting the above command into the terminal, that pasted text
will be colored according to active-region-start-color and
active-region-end-color (bash-5.2) or terminal standout mode (bash-5.1).
Otherwise, readline redisplay just outputs terminal sequences to move the
cursor and the characters in the line.

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