On 2026-06-24 06:56:51 +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 05:42:58PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 13:30 +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> >
> > > +/* Before exiting, turn off features enabled in start_curses() that
> > > + * are not reversed by endwin().
> > > + */
> > > +void mutt_curses_cleanup(void)
> > > +{
> > > +#if HAVE_META
> > > + meta(stdscr, FALSE);
> > > +#endif
> > > +}
> >
> > Shouldn't Mutt only turn off that mode if it was off when Mutt started?
>
> I don't know how to check that via curses.
is_meta() is missing for that, and according to the meta(3ncurses)
man page, there isn't a fixed default. So I would say that changing
the meta status is incorrect, or it should be controlled by an
option so that the user would explicitly tell Mutt when to set
meta to TRUE or FALSE. Moreover, according to the discussion, the
meta status does not belong to the curses window, but to the terminal.
So, if a user really needs it, this could be done *outside* of Mutt.
In short, Mutt does not need to care about it.
BTW, I suppose that meta() applies to the top-level terminal.
So I'm wondering whether it also clashes with GNU Screen or tmux
(but perhaps their terminfo settings disable this old feature).
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