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bug #61184: in the Debian installer, Verbatim Input shows "^C Cancel"

Submitter:  Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Submitted:  Sat 18 Sep 2021 03:27:51 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  2 - Minor Status:  Fixed
Assigned to:  bens Open/Closed:  Closed

Wed 22 Sep 2021 01:41:04 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Fixed in git in the branch for Bullseye, commit 8842035e.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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Sat 18 Sep 2021 03:27:51 PM UTC, original submission:  

To reproduce, download a Debian netinstall ISO [1], dd it to a USB stick, and boot from it.  Then choose the plain Install (/not/ the Graphical Install) and choose "Go Back" as soon as you can.  Then pick the penultimate item ("Execute a shell") in that menu.

In that shell run 'nano'.  Type: M-V.  See that nano says "Verbatim Input" on the status bar and that the two bottom lines change to just "^C Cancel".  This is wrong.  Verbatim Input cannot be cancelled -- the help lines should not change at all.  Now type: 001122.  This should have shown "Unicode Input: ......" feedback on the status bar, but nothing is shown.  (At the end of the six-digit sequence an invisible character is entered into the buffer and nano returns to its normal operation.)

The problem is caused by the cursor-awakening workaround at the end of statusline().  It will need some extra calls to bottombars() to restore the normal help lines for the Verbatim case.

[1] https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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