Subject: Re: bug#56843: grep mangling lines
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: "David G. Pickett" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 21:50:06 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 7/30/22 17:42, David G. Pickett wrote:
> Any clues on how I got an xterm to mess up?

Presumably by sending that sequence of escape characters to xterm. You 
should be able to reproduce the problem by using grep --color=always and 
sending the output to a file F, and then by typing 'cat F'.

As this is not a grep bug, I'll close the grep bug report.