On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 09:00:08PM -0700, joel wittenberg wrote:
> Jan -
>
> The problem is your term-type; Redhat has changed the details of their
> terminfo entries lately; for instance, changing from RH6.0 to RH6.2
> caused Mutt to stop displaying some things correctly (e.g., ACS thread
> tree display). The only real solution is to work-over the terminfo
> entries (note: sigh. When I rebuild the termcap db I get compilation
"rebuild" termcap or terminfo?
(I didn't notice much that RH did with the termcap; most of their changes
have been in the X resources).
> errors on several of the *unmodified* entries. Luckily I don't use any
> of those entries). Until I changed my term type I did indeed get
> unbound macro problems. You may just be able to change your termtype
> (esp, to xterm-xfree86), however you will get problems when rlogging
> to other systems which do not have an xterm-xfree86 termcap/info
> entry - that's why I suggest modifying the terminfo db (xterm is just an
> alias for one of several possible xterm-like term defs).
>
> Now what RH is trying to accomplish with these terminfo entry changes
they're trying (w/o thinking through the problem) to compete with Debian.
> Idon't know; presumably it makes something else works better, but if so,
> nothing that I have noticed,
>
> /joel
>
> Quoting Jan Houtsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...but problems with OCRNL aren't related to terminfo/termcap. (I'd look
in other places - perhaps mutt's not resetting the terminal modes properly).
>
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 10:05:17 +0200
> > From: Jan Houtsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: RH7.0: muttrc \n -> \r ??
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