Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-13 Thread Stan Ryckman
At 11:14 AM 6/7/99 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Having to go through and manually remove all these spaces, even in vi, is a tedious process and should not have to be done at all. I won't address mutt/slang here, but removing all trailing blanks in vi is hardly tedious:

Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-13 Thread Stan Ryckman
At 10:47 AM 6/13/99 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On 06/13/1999 (13:27:37), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:14 AM 6/7/99 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Having to go through and manually remove all these spaces, even in vi, is a tedious process and should not have to be done at all.

Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-13 Thread John E. Davis
* An answer to why if this problem has been around for such a long time (and has been discussed before), that why a solution hasn't been provided. * An actual solution to the problem. This has nothing to do with whether or not slang writes spaces. It has everything

Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On 06/13/1999 (11:29:29), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem has been around for so long because it's an s-lang problem, not a mutt problem, so discussing it on the mutt mailing lists isn't going to do diddly-squat, since for the most part, the s-lang developers are not on the mutt mailing

Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On 06/13/1999 (14:52:24), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * An answer to why if this problem has been around for such a long time (and has been discussed before), that why a solution hasn't been provided. * An actual solution to the problem. This has nothing to do with whether

Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-13 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 12:11:42PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: A string is "Hello", terminated with \0. If this string is printf()'d, it outputs "Hello". The terminal sees 5 characters, and therefore lets you select 5. Five are only sent over the tty as well.

Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On 06/13/1999 (13:05:29), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "From: Stan Ryckman [EMAIL PROTECTED]" It's not doing that for me. If I press my left mouse button down, and 'sweep' the 'From' line in the pager, as soon as I get to the end of the text, the line highlights

Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-13 Thread John E. Davis
Correct. Most terminal emulation software will throw spaces inbetween Foo and Bar as to ensure a decent way of copy/pasting text to a clipboard or etc. I do not think so. Consider: ESC[1;1H ESC[K ESC[1;10H Bar ESC[1;1H Foo This

Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-13 Thread Stefan `Sec` Zehl
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 11:58:20AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: You keep thinking it's a slang problem -- it is not. The problem is not entirely slang, nor is it entirely ncurses. This is a very common thing in the "free software world." Blaming someone else for

Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-13 Thread Brandon Long
On 06/07/99 Brandon Long uttered the following other thing: On 06/07/99 Jeremy Chadwick uttered the following other thing: [good long discussion of padding spaces in mutt] Mutt doesn't do this, slang does. This is a known problem in slang, if my memory serves me. People haven't mentioned

Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On 06/13/1999 (17:55:47), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With xterm "XFree86 3.3.2.3" as the terminal, terminfo from redhat 5.2 mutt 0.96.2 with slang 1.2.2 on redhat 6: non colored lines are properly terminated colored lines have spaces all the way to the edge of the screen This can be seen

Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Hello. I have been using mutt for a period of 6-7 months, and I must say it's definitely the best UNIX fullscreen mailer I have ever encountered. It's also regularly updated, unlike it's elm and pine counterparts. However, the point of my message is not to

Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-07 Thread Brandon Long
On 06/07/99 Jeremy Chadwick uttered the following other thing: [good long discussion of padding spaces in mutt] Mutt doesn't do this, slang does. This is a known problem in slang, if my memory serves me. People haven't mentioned it in a while, but I believe that when slang is putting things in

Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-07 Thread rfi from Rich Roth
I think John answered it a few weeks ago - there is also a new development release see www.slang.org and the new release in: From John (Jun-06-1999) Yesterday, I released version 1.3.7 of the slang library (and version 0.99-6 of jed). The library is available from:

Re: Unfriendly terminal behaviour

1999-06-07 Thread rfi from Rich Roth
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 02:50:47PM -0400, rfi from Rich Roth wrote: release see www.slang.org and the new release in: Sorry - that's http://www.s-lang.org -- Later ... Rich Roth --- On-the-Net Direct: Box 927, Northampton, MA 01061, Voice: 413-586-9668 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]