Emacs "leaks" background color in OBSD 4.1

[Kadin2048]

I'm not totally sure if this is an 'OpenBSD question,' a 'ksh question,'
or an 'emacs question,' so my apologies if this is misdirected. I'm
hoping that someone can at least point me in the right direction here.

Whenever I use emacs on my OpenBSD 4.1 box (that's GNU Emacs installed
from the release package, version 21.4p3-no_x11), it does something odd:
on exit, the background color stays and gets used for all new text in
the shell.

For example; I'll start off using a black-on-white scheme in an xterm,
and then connect to the OBSD machine and run Emacs. Emacs will work
fine, but then when I exit it and return to the shell, the text
background will be stuck black. It won't go away until I either reset
the connection, or run a command that displays color ('ls -G' seems to
clear it).

It's not major, but it is annoying, and I'm at a loss for how to fix it.
Changing the settings in Emacs doesn't really seem to have any effect,
and it happens regardless of what terminal emulator I use to connect
(Apple's Terminal.app, rxvt, xterm, etc.). My TERM type is set to
xterm-color and CLICOLOR is 'true.' The machine is otherwise a fresh
install, nothing's on it but the base system, Emacs, and fileutils.

Has anyone ever had this happen before, or can tell me what's going on?

Thanks very much,
Kadin.

[Thomas Dickey]

Setting $TERM to "xterm-color" is usually incorrect. It tells the
application that the terminal doesn't use the most recently-set color
when clearing the background.

It sort-of-works with Apple's terminal emulator, though there are
other problems with that - and in any case, OpenBSD's terminal database
is too old to have anything accurate for it.

For the others - there are correct entries in ncurses...

For reference

ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.gz

--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

[Christian Weisgerber]

Thomas Dickey <dic...@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:

> Setting $TERM to "xterm-color" is usually incorrect. It tells the
> application that the terminal doesn't use the most recently-set color
> when clearing the background.
>
> It sort-of-works with Apple's terminal emulator, though there are
> other problems with that - and in any case, OpenBSD's terminal database
> is too old to have anything accurate for it.

For modern XFree86/X.org xterm, TERM=xterm-xfree86 is a better fit
than plain TERM=xterm or xterm-color. No idea about the Apple
thingy.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de

[Kadin2048]

In article <fgvrq7$s4d$1...@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>,
na...@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) wrote:

> For modern XFree86/X.org xterm, TERM=xterm-xfree86 is a better fit
> than plain TERM=xterm or xterm-color. No idea about the Apple
> thingy.

Changing to "xterm-xfree86" seemed to solve the issue, in both a regular
X11 xterm and in Apple's Terminal.

Thanks!

-Kadin.