On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 01:32:16PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On 06/13/1999 (13:05:29), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > "From: Stan Ryckman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "
> >
> > It's not doing that for me. If I press my left mouse button down, and
> > 'sweep' the 'From' line in the pager, as soon as I get to the end of the
> > text, the line highlights (what ncurses does when it sees the invisible
> > 'end of line').
>
> It does this for me in what almost seems to be "random lines"
> (!!!), while Slang does it all the time. I mentioned earlier,
> providing GIF images might help, as I can show the results
> of both ncurses & slang via these images.
But you're missing the point: it's not doing that on other people's
systems once they correct a setup problem. (Mine was an old version of
ncurses lying in /lib that ld.so kept linking to. Once I rm'd it, Mutt
was quite content.)
> > > People are blaming slang for this behaviour. Possibly the
> > > problem is with slang, and with ncurses as well.
> >
> > Make sure you're using the ncurses you think you are using. Many Linux
> > machines have evil old ncurses on their machines. Use ldd to ensure
> > you're using what you think you are using.
>
> I do not use Linux. Linux's mix termcap+terminfo database
> results in much confusion. I use FreeBSD 3.2-CURRENT which is
> termcap-only (ncurses 1.8.6/ache).
Again, make sure you're linking to what you think you're linking to.
I do like the random bashing of Linux: but do note that your
oh-so-pristine FreeBSD system seems to have a problem. The irony is
wonderful. :)
Nevermind that each has advantages and disadvantages (the full termcap
for xterm is unimplementable since you run into length limits, for
example).
> I also tried using FreeBSD with the ncurses 4.2 (terminfo-based)
> distribution, which resulted in the same results. I made sure
> it was using 4.2 via 'mutt -v'.
No, that tells you what Mutt was compiled to link to. Use ldd to
determine what it is really linking to.
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