On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 02:17:02PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> Thomas, et al --
> ...and then Thomas Dickey said...
> % On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 01:54:35PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> % > One thing you might do is to tell your editor to wrap your lines at 72
> % > characters or so...
> % that's what editors are for (mutt-users seems to have a lot of vim-users,
> % though of course I use vile - either way it's just a keystroke to reflow).
> 
> Ick.  I don't like reflowing someone else's text.  I don't like someone
> else reflowing mine, either.

I do it often enough that I don't have to look at the key I've bound that
to (F7).
 
> % > % I have a Wy30+ serial terminal that is currently sitting in my living room. 
> % > Have you tried running mutt with TERM=vt100?  That's pretty basic and
> % > simple, and should be a good start.
> % vt100 is nothing like wyse30 (unless of course the wyse30 terminal
> % has a vt100 emulation that he can use - then it might be something like ;-)
> I figured the latter as fairly likely, but I also figured that vt100
> was about as basic as one could get.  Shows you what I know :-)

it's possible (about 1/4 of the time I point out that terminal xxx isn't
vt100-compatible, someone says it has a vt100 emulation - though it isn't
clear before/after if the requestor was using that.
 
> Lovely Greek goo you posted a bit ago; I found it very interesting (well,
> no, not really, but perhaps Skylar will find it helpful ;-)

enough that he can look/compare/inquire further...

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