Hi Dave, Actually mutt is just partly involved. It switches to the alternative screen in your terminal emulator. This switches in some terminals the behaviour. Gnome-terminal than disables its scroll back and reports mouse scroll events as repeated presses of the up or down key. The 9 lines/messages you experience come from the X11 wide setting for the mouse - the typical scroll distance.
This alternates for example in mc. Mc uses the mouse reporting like aptitude also does, and if you disable it via the command line switch it chooses to ignore the received events. Your fix would involve just setting pager_stop in mutt, so that upon reaching a messages end you won't touch other messages. Alteratively you can disable (or remove from the coding) the switch of the mouse behaviour in your terminal emulator, but this might be a huge effort. I for myself decided a while ago to ditch the scroll back of my terminal (urxvt) and only use the one from the screen sessions I have running inside it anyway. This allows me to use the scroll wheel of my mouse nearly always as replacement for repeated long-distance scrolling in any app and doesn't bother me as much as the scroll back getting mixed up by the many screen windows I have open in each screen window. Regards, Andre Dave Dodge <dodo...@dododge.net> wrote: > >I've seen this sort of thing happen in both gnome-terminal and >xfce4-terminal, both locally and over ssh. > > -Dave Dodge/dodo...@dododge.net -- Andre Klärner Telefon: 0351/79666546 Fax: 0351/79688547 Mobil: 0172/9838653 Anschrift: Prohliser Allee 43 01239 Dresden
