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 spaces between them seems perfectly OK. 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 continuation lines. This seems wrong to me, a very long string of text should be left intact and simply wrapped onto multiple lines. I have tried all the sensible combinations of $wrap, $reflow_wrap and $reflow_text that I can think of and, though they do exactly what they're supposed to do with 'words' separated by spaces, they never change the truncation of long strings of text at the right margin. 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. Have I missed a setting somwhere that affects this or is it just a bug/feature? Can I ask if it might be fixed because it's one of the few things i find really annoying about mutt - not being able to easily select and use long URLs. -- Chris Green
