On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 02:05:59PM -0700, brian moore wrote:
> 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.
alcove:~$ which mutt
/usr/bin/mutt
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/mhw
alcove:~$ ldd /usr/bin/mutt
libncurses.so.4 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x40008000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40046000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
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