On 0, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How can I bind the ALT key, I would wuite like to use keys the same as Emacs
> > for paging up and down, C-v and M-v, but I can't find out how to bind the
> > ALT (META) key, the closest I have come is the escape key, but it doesn't
> > quite have the same usefulness.
>
> I just tested and "bind foo <esc>v bar" works. I built mutt
> accidentally with ncurses instead of slang so as David said
> it might have something to do with it.
Yep, someone mailed me telling me it was an S-Lang problem, and they have a
patch which was in the contrib directory, but I couldn't find it, I may
rebuild with ncurses to solve my problem now, but I have noticed there are
some differences, I have S-Lang 1.3.7, and ncurses 1.6 ? I think.
I used to use a pre-built ncurses one, then I upgraded and built with slang,
I noticed, that when an error string is produced and displayed, using slang,
the whole of the line is colored with the backcolor of `error' object (under
color)
But using ncurses, only the area where text is is updated, so for exmaple,
if there is an error message, it is printed under the status bar, with
slang, it seems to always return to a black background (no matter what the
color settings), when an error is diaplpyed, the whole line under the status
bar is changed to what the setting or "color error" is (in my case yellow on
white). When the key moves, the color goes back to black,
Now, in ncurses, when the error string is printed, only the background under
the text is changed, so when the error string is not the full 80 characters
(99.9% of the time), I get a half black, and half yellow on white text error
string line under the status bar.
this is tolerable, but the ALT key is a real problem.
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