Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-16 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:33:19AM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote: > * Robert Holtzman on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 11:08:05 -0700 > > Having one problem with it. When installed in debian lenny on > > my desktop box and on ubuntu hardy on my laptop it's fine. > > Hiting "c" shows the default mai

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-16 Thread Christian Ebert
* Robert Holtzman on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 11:08:05 -0700 > Having one problem with it. When installed in debian lenny on > my desktop box and on ubuntu hardy on my laptop it's fine. > Hiting "c" shows the default mailbox to open as the next one > with new mail. Better than alpine. Install

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:38:01AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Saturday, November 14 at 11:08 AM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > > When installed in debian lenny on my desktop box and on ubuntu hardy > > on my laptop it's fine. Hiting "c" shows the default mailbox to open > > as the next one with n

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-15 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Saturday, November 14 at 11:08 AM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > When installed in debian lenny on my desktop box and on ubuntu hardy > on my laptop it's fine. Hiting "c" shows the default mailbox to open > as the next one with new mail. Better than

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-14 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:34:21PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Saturday, November 14 at 11:08 AM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > > Why the difference between ubuntu on the two different computers is > > driving me nuts. The ~/,muttrc file is the same on all three, having > > been copied via a flash

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-14 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:31:49PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Saturday, November 14 at 11:41 AM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > >> Doesn't that just scream "this programmer knows what they're > >> doing"? > > > > Probably, if I were a programmer. I got part way into C some time ago > > but accordi

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-14 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Saturday, November 14 at 11:08 AM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > Why the difference between ubuntu on the two different computers is > driving me nuts. The ~/,muttrc file is the same on all three, having > been copied via a flash drive. Any ideas? W

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-14 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Saturday, November 14 at 11:41 AM, quoth Robert Holtzman: >> Doesn't that just scream "this programmer knows what they're >> doing"? > > Probably, if I were a programmer. I got part way into C some time ago > but according to the actuarial table

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-14 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:08:21PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Thursday, November 12 at 11:40 PM, quoth Robert Holtzman: >> The only reason I'm running the sidebar is that I'm used to >> pine/alpine where the mailbox list is a click away. > > Understood. Personally, I find the mailbox list ra

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-14 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:42:12AM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote: > * Robert Holtzman on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 23:40:04 -0700 > > The only reason I'm running the sidebar is that I'm used to pine/alpine > > where the mailbox list is a click away. Don't know how the unpatched > > mutt handles

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-13 Thread Kyle Wheeler
On Thursday, November 12 at 11:40 PM, quoth Robert Holtzman: The only reason I'm running the sidebar is that I'm used to pine/alpine where the mailbox list is a click away. Understood. Personally, I find the mailbox list rather annoying. I have lots of rarely-used mailboxes (for grouping messa

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-13 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:42:12AM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote: > * Robert Holtzman on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 23:40:04 -0700 > > The only reason I'm running the sidebar is that I'm used to pine/alpine > > where the mailbox list is a click away. Don't know how the unpatched > > mutt handles

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-13 Thread Christian Ebert
* Robert Holtzman on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 23:40:04 -0700 > The only reason I'm running the sidebar is that I'm used to pine/alpine > where the mailbox list is a click away. Don't know how the unpatched > mutt handles this The mailbox list is just a click away too, albeit not visible at t

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 05:03:42PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Thursday, November 12 at 02:44 PM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > > Since, to my knowledge, for a mailbox to be shown in the sidebar it > > must be included in the list of mailboxes and inclusion means it > > will be checked, the answer

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-12 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thursday, November 12 at 02:44 PM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > Since, to my knowledge, for a mailbox to be shown in the sidebar it > must be included in the list of mailboxes and inclusion means it > will be checked, the answer is...all. If I'm wro

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:19:35PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Thursday, November 12 at 10:57 AM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > > Hard to say as they go by pretty fast but there are a total of 37 in > > ~./mail. That includes 14 "saved-*", backup, spam, outbox, etc. > > Don't know if mutt checks t

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-12 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thursday, November 12 at 10:57 AM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > Hard to say as they go by pretty fast but there are a total of 37 in > ~./mail. That includes 14 "saved-*", backup, spam, outbox, etc. > Don't know if mutt checks these. Can't see why i

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:19:59AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Wednesday, November 11 at 11:25 PM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > > My mailboxes are on my hd. > > Huh. Okay. How many is mutt checking on? Hard to say as they go by pretty fast but there are a total of 37 in ~./mail. That includes 14

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-12 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wednesday, November 11 at 11:25 PM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > My mailboxes are on my hd. Huh. Okay. How many is mutt checking on? > Still can't figure out why mutt would insist on polling mailboxes > for keystrokes unrelated to any mailbox (s, t

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:22:16AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > So, mutt has a lot of settings, most of which are set under the > assumption that you're using mutt to read a local mbox. For example, > the $mail_check variable is, by default, 5. What that means is that > mutt will expect to chec

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-11 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday, November 10 at 11:02 PM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:36:25PM -0800, Morris, Patrick wrote: >> Mutt checks for mailbox changes frequently, It doesn't have to. >> If you're using a remote mailbox and the network co

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:29:26PM -0500, Kevin Kammer wrote: .snip. > Are you certain the performance problem is with Mutt? It isn't just that mutt is slow. It seems like it reads headers in all mailboxes no matter what the keystroke. This leads me to belie

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:36:25PM -0800, Morris, Patrick wrote: > > Mutt checks for mailbox changes frequently, which is why new mail can > show up while you're doing things like scrolling around through a > mailbox. If you're using a remote mailbox and the network connection's > being flaky, or

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-10 Thread Kevin Kammer
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:36:25PM -0800 Morris, Patrick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:09:38PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > On 2009-11-10, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > > Mutt seems to change behavior from day to day. Yesterday it flew.

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-10 Thread Morris, Patrick
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:09:38PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-11-10, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > Mutt seems to change behavior from day to day. Yesterday it flew. > > > Today it hesitates after *every* key stroke, whether it's navigating

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:09:38PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2009-11-10, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > Mutt seems to change behavior from day to day. Yesterday it flew. > > Today it hesitates after *every* key stroke, whether it's navigating > > between mailboxes or within a mailbox, tagging

Re: intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-10 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-11-10, Robert Holtzman wrote: > Mutt seems to change behavior from day to day. Yesterday it flew. > Today it hesitates after *every* key stroke, whether it's navigating > between mailboxes or within a mailbox, tagging a message, saving, > replying, you name it. The hesitation lasts for

intermittant hesitation after key strokes

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
Mutt seems to change behavior from day to day. Yesterday it flew. Today it hesitates after *every* key stroke, whether it's navigating between mailboxes or within a mailbox, tagging a message, saving, replying, you name it. The hesitation lasts for 3-5 seconds. It appears to be reading headers