From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Subject: Re: watch: don't show previous output in 'dimmed' fashion
To: tech@openbsd.org
Cc: Job Snijders <job@bsd.nl>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 22:07:14 +0200

Job Snijders:

> For now perhaps better to zap the feature. 

> OK?

Obviously ok from me. :-)

To see the problem, watch(1) a command that outputs fewer lines
each time it is run, e.g. this silly shell script that modifies
itself to keep state:

--------------------
#!/bin/sh
n=20
i=$n
while [ "$i" -gt 0 ]; do
	echo "$i" 
	i=$((i - 1))
done
echo "(last line)"
sed -i "s/^n=${n}$/n=$((n - 1))/" "$0"

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