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
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
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
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
