On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 01:11:10PM +0000, Sam Kuper wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 09:33:16AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 01:24:37PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> >> In [the] past, I've tried a few things to see if it has an effect on
> >> the output of long lines, but haven't found anything that makes a
> >> difference. In the end, I believe it's a side effect of how ncurses
> >> works.
> >
> > Yes, I realise this issue has been looked into before, and no solution
> > found. [...] I'll have a talk with Tom Dickey who is the maintainer of
> > both vile and ncurses, he may be able to throw some light on this.
>
> Workaround: while viewing an affected email in Mutt, press the vertical
> bar key (`|`) and then type `less`. This will pipe the email to Less -
> which, as you've noted, is unaffected by the issue. You can then select
> URLs or other long whitespace-free text strings per your terminal's
> normal behaviour.
>
> (You probably already knew this! But I'm mentioning it in case not, or
> in case helpful for anyone else reading this thread.)
>
I actually have a macro implemented to do this, single key ('l') pipes
the message into less. It's a reasonable workaround but one does have
to hit 'q' twice to get back out of less.
--
Chris Green
