On 01Oct2022 09:33, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
As I said though it seems odd that only mutt suffers from the problem (on my xubuntu systems anyway). Presumably both 'less' and my editor 'vile' use ncurses too and they just wrap long lines if you tell them to do so.
I'm pretty sure that less does not use curses (of whatever implementation). Termcap/terminfo, sure. But not curses, which maintains a model of the whole screen.
I have a (vague) recollection that some terminals keep track of whether a line was terminates with a newline or not, and that it affects how copy/paste was done, in that a newline causes a break in the string. But the memory is vague.
1) is your long string using the full width of the terminal? i.e. is there a character in the rightmost column?
2) if the text does go to the rightmost column, but you have a break in the copied text, what's in that break? eg if you paste into an editor, what gets inserted there?
Just curious, not sure this information would lead to a fix/workaround. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
