On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 01:10:03PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote:
> David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I am using mutt with s-lang, and I have noticed that if I do an xterm
> > cut and paste, I get the spaces at the end of each line. Normally,
> > with an xterm cut and paste, the tailing spaces are left off, which is
> > very handy.
>
> I have been annoyed by this since day 1 using Mutt, but I have learned
> to live with it.
>
> > Does anyone know if this is a mutt thing or a s-lang thing? More to
> > the point, does anyone know how to make it go back to the old
> > behavior?
>
> I think it's a "Mutt and S-Lang" thing. That is, Mutt uses S-Lang's
> curses-emulation package, and S-Lang's curses emulation isn't the best,
> so it ends up painting spaces all the way across the line when in color
> mode.
>
> I think using ncurses would work, but I'm finding it difficult to
> compile ncurses on HPUX at this time. :P
I just tried ncurses (4.2 under Linux) and it does the same thing. I'm
using TERM=xterm-color and nxterm FWIW.
David
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