Subject: Re: bug#56843: grep mangling lines

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 21:50:06 -0700

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.