Hey, I've noticed that this problem affects more than just the status bar in mutt:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/136038/mutt.png In that screenshot you can see that the status bar at the bottom of mutt, the bar at the top, and the bar highlighting the selected message all have gaps in them. As I said, if I pad the empty space in the status bar with -'s instead of spaces it "fixes" the problem. It seems that whenever a coloured bar contains space characters you get a gap in the bar. Also, I've noticed that the problem occurs when running mutt inside GNU Screen or tmux, but does not happen if I run mutt outside of any terminal multiplexor. On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 08:10:14PM +0000, seanh wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:38:57AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:31:12PM +0000, seanh wrote: > > > I don't think I made any change to my mutt config that > > > corresponded with the occurrence of this problem. Here's my > > > status_format line from my muttrc: > > > > > > set status_format="%f: %m messages (%l)%?n?, %n new?%?V?, %M (%L) > > > matching \"%V\"?. %> %?b? %b other mailboxes have new mail!? %v" > > > > If you remove this from your muttrc, does the problem go away? > > Good point, yes, it does. The problem seems to be when in > status_format I tell mutt to right-align the rest of the text, and pad > the empty space with space characters: "%> ". If I change that bit of > status_format to "%>-" so that the empty space between the > left-aligned and right-aligned sections in the status bar is filled > with -'s instead of spaces, then it works. > > But "%> " should be valid, shouldn't it? I think it was working, > previously. > > I don't know if the change corresponded to any update. I'm running the > mutt package from Ubuntu 10.04. Here's the output of mutt -v: > > Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and > others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type > `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to > redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. > > System: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic (i686) ncurses: ncurses 5.7.20090803 > (compiled with 5.7) libidn: 1.15 (compiled with 1.15) hcache backend: > GDBM version 1.8.3. 10/15/2002 (built Dec 5 2009 21:42:40) Compile > options: -DOMAIN +DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK > +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK +USE_POP +USE_IMAP > +USE_SMTP -USE_SSL_OPENSSL +USE_SSL_GNUTLS +USE_SASL +USE_GSS > +HAVE_GETADDRINFO +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR > +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET > +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP > +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME +CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME -EXACT_ADDRESS > -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +COMPRESSED > +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR > +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +USE_HCACHE > -ISPELL SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/mail" > PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/etc" EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" > MIXMASTER="mixmaster" To contact the developers, please mail to > <[email protected]>. To report a bug, please visit > http://bugs.mutt.org/. > > patch-1.5.13.cd.ifdef.2
