On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 08:15:51PM +0200, Marius Gedminas mentioned:
> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 12:03:15PM +0100, John P . Looney wrote:
> > Has anyone noticed that sometimes, when viewing a mail with Lynx, through
> > mutt, that they fight over the terminal ?
>
> Not with mutt, but lynx used to fight with Midnight Commander this way
> on my system. The reason was an extra `&' in /usr/lib/mc/mc.ext that
> sent lynx into background unnecessarily (well, maybe that did work with
> gmc, but definitely not with mc in an xterm). I suggest you to check
> your mailcap for spurious ampersands.
Gah. It had:
text/html; lynx %s&; needsterminal;;
Well, that's that mystery solved. Only last week someone pointed out
about bash needing a \[ and \] between non printable characters, or
terminals wouldn't render my prompt properly. Whoohoo!
Kate
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