On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 03:45:12PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > still won't work (xterm won't retain it as a single line if it wasn't
> > > written as a single line, and you can't count on any screen optimization
> > > library to do this).
> >
> > I thought that if mutt had written it as a single line to the screen
> > library, the screen library would leave it alone. How does it work
> > in vim? Both are linked with ncurses on my system.
>
> vim is using a termcap-style interface and happens to not do the particular
> optimization in question (at least not when you're looking at it ;-)
Well, I'm disappointed, and I'll probably scream bloody murder if
vim ever "happens" to break long lines, but I guess I'll have to
give up on this one.
Thanks,
Andrew
