On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:47:45PM -0400, Daniel Eisenbud wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:04:04PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Hmmm.... Just noticed a "cut and paste" annoyance that I had never
> > encounted with elm or with any other pager like more or less. If I'm
> > viewing a message and copy part of the message using the mouse cut and
> > paste in X-Windows, I find that when I paste it into something else, all
> > of the lines are padded with spaces out to the width of the original window
> > that Mutt was running in. I would guess that the Mutt pager is padding
> > out the lines rather than clearing and terminating.
> >
> > Like I said, it's an annoyance. It's not a drop dead fatal type
> > problem. It makes it a pain to subsequently edit the text that's been
> > pasted in.
>
> I have a vague recollection that this may be a ncurses vs. slang issue.
> Could the people saying that this does and doesn't happen to them post
> the output of "mutt -v"? This is in general good practice when
> reporting a problem,
Actually, as I recall, it was a bit trickier... it's an -old- version of
ncurses being found. I had to hunt and destroy all the 1.9's hiding on my
system in various guises to make it behave.
In this case, an ldd from those with problems may be more useful.
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