On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:05:46PM -0700, Michael Jennings wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 September 1999, at 18:46:33 (-0500),
> David DeSimone wrote:
> > There's more to it than that, I believe. You need to also set an
> > environment variable:
> > export COLORFGBG="default;default"
> > > (It's black lettering on a white background, which is my
> > > terminal mode).
> > At any rate, though, having done this, I can report that the problem
> > persists. What I find is that, the spaces that are printed out to the
> > right margin, now use the default color, instead of the last color used
> > on the line.
> > So, Slang is responding to the change in environment/settings, but the
> > problem persists.
> Is this discussion about the spaces at the end of a line being pasted
> when you select in mutt and paste elsewhere? Because if it is, we had
> this same discussion awhile back.
> Eterm 0.8.9 and later has an option, enabled by default, which
> prevents this behavior. Also, I believe John Davis posted a patch for
> rxvt to fix this, although (IIRC) it had a small bug.
Interesting... Except I'm not running eterm or rxvt.
> But it's your terminal, folks, not mutt. So this discussion is out of
> place here.
I'm using xterm.
System #1, RedHat 5.2: xterm -v => XFree86 3.3.3(88)
System #2, RedHat 6.0: xterm -v => XFree86 3.3.3.1b(88b)
Simple question... If it's the terminal and not mutt, why does
it only occur with mutt? I can do the same thing with vi (vim) in color
mode and not have the problem. I can do the same thing with cat and less
and more and man and not have the same problem. I never had the problem
with elm, but elm didn't have a color mode so that's not a point on the
curve after all... If it's the terminal, why is mutt different than all
of these others? If it's the terminal, what is mutt doing different (than
vim specifically since vim is using color mode just like mutt) that
is triggering the problem?
I hope that doesn't come across sounding like I'm irritated
'cause I'm not. I'm just curious as to what the parameters are that
are causing this...
> Michael
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