On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 09:43:47AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 01Oct2022 09:33, Chris Green 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 l
On 01Oct2022 09:33, Chris Green 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
On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 01:11:10PM +, 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, b
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,
On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 01:24:37PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 02:42:09PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> >I'm am also pretty sure that it's the mutt pager doing this as other
> >programs (i.e. less) wrap long lines in a terminal window but don't
> >chop them into pieces
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 02:42:09PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
I'm am also pretty sure that it's the mutt pager doing this as other
programs (i.e. less) wrap long lines in a terminal window but don't
chop them into pieces like mutt's pager.
Mutt uses ncurses to draw on the screen, which is a lay
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 08:55:28PM +0200, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote:
>
> Chris Green wrote (Fri 2022-Sep-30 14:42:09 +0100):
>
> > So, when there is a long string of text in a message that is longer
> > than the width of the terminal and has no spaces in it mutt *always*
> > breaks the line at the
Chris Green wrote (Fri 2022-Sep-30 14:42:09 +0100):
> So, when there is a long string of text in a message that is longer
> than the width of the terminal and has no spaces in it mutt *always*
> breaks the line at the RHS of the terminal window and displays the
> rest of the line on separate con
I have been playing with the various mutt settings which affect how
long lines are managed (in the pager in particular).
By 'long lines' I mean strings of text which have no spaces in them
and which are longer than the width of the terminal window. The
handling of text made up of words with space
