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Re: Pager Breaks Colors



Um, okay ... go figure ... I attach it, and it works perfectly fine even
within Mutt. . .

The original email still doesn't work within Mutt, though, and that's
really annoying.  I can post screenshots, if anybody's interested.

 - Dave


On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 12:55:05PM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> Oh, whoops ... by the time I attached the file, my debugging setup had
> already overwritten the file with a new message.  This time, I believe
> I'm attaching the right one.  (My email address is also broken in the
> middle of coloring, I just noticed, BTW.)
> 
>  - Dave
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 12:45:51PM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> > I submitted a bug report a while ago stating an earlier problem I
> > had with Mutt's pager clobbering my ANSI escape sequences even when
> > allow_ansi was set.  Since then, I've discovered that the behavoir doesn't
> > just trigger on newlines, as the attached file (generated by my latest
> > displayfilter configuration, utilizing a 100% XML pipeline) clearly shows.
> > Try viewing it within Mutt, and you'll notice that the colors in the
> > URLs in particular are badly screwed up.  If you view it using cat or
> > more, though, you'll see that the ANSI sequences are in fact correct.
> > (You can look at it in less and see the escape sequences directly,
> > if you don't believe cat and more.)
> > 
> > Is there a chance that somebody might be interested in fixing the thing?
> > AFAICT, allow_ansi should essentially just let the filtered email just
> > control the terminal directly with the ANSI sequences, rather than
> > constantly killing off escape sequences prematurely.  (Otherwise, what's
> > the point of allow_ansi in the first place?)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >  - Dave
> > 
> > -- 
> > Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor?
> > It's simple, Skyler.  You've seen what food processors do to food, right?
> > 
> > Please visit this link:
> > http://rotter.net/israel
> 
> > Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:43:38 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Asif Iqbal <iqbala@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: Sortign Issue
> > X-X-Sender: iqbala@qmail
> > To: Zbynek Houska <zbynh@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Zbynek Houska wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:44:47 +0100
> > > From: Zbynek Houska <zbynh@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: Mutt Users List <mutt-users@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: Re: Sortign Issue
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 06:22:38PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> > > > If I use
> > > >
> > > > set sort=reverse-date-recieved I loose thred. I like to keep the thread 
> > > > along
> > > > with the reverse-date. How do I do that ?
> > > >
> > > Hope it helps you :-)
> > >
> > > folder-hook . set sort=reverse-threads
> > >
> > 
> > I like keep the threads as it is, but just sort by reverse arrival. I can 
> > do it
> > fine in Pine. Basically I do not want to go the last page to see the latest
> > email. At the same time I like see the mails as original than replies in 
> > that
> > order. In Pine I choose reverse-arrival and show threads, that does exactly 
> > what
> > I want
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > > Zbynek
> > >
> > 
> > -- 
> > Asif Iqbal
> > http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8B686E08
> > There's no place like 127.0.0.1
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor?
> It's simple, Skyler.  You've seen what food processors do to food, right?
> 
> Please visit this link:
> http://rotter.net/israel

> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 09:29:34 -0500
> Subject: Re: muttquery
> To: Mutt Users List <mutt-users@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> GPG: Dave Cohen 
> <dave@dave.tj>:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 04:01:51AM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen 
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 06:51:12PM +1100, Ricky Buchanan wrote:
> 
> > > Anyway,  have situations in OTHER programs where I have to look up email
> > > addresses, on occasion, and it'd be REALLY handy if instead of looking
> > > up and getting the output like this:
> > > 
> > > Searching through 475 addresses in pilot address book.
> > > frayah@xxxxxxxxxxx    Anne Oberin     
> > > rb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx     Penguin Ricky Buchanan  
> > > Colin.Oberin@xxxxxxxxxx       Colin Oberin    Dad Father
> > > kase@xxxxxxxx Hayden Oberin   
> > > kaysik@xxxxxxxxxx     Ptolemy Oberin  
> > > 
> > > Then for cases where there's >1 entry, I'd like mutt's
> > > query-answer-choosing program to come up, let me choose the answer, and
> > > return it to stdout like, for example
> > > 
> > > rb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > 
> > > still using the previous example.  And, like with mutt, in the previous
> > > example it would automatically choose and return one address if the
> > > query program returned only one.
> > > 
> > > Possible to do/access from the command line?
> 
> Well, I got bored, so I made a program to do just that.  The only
> thing is, it depends on the dialog program to do the actual work.
> (The dialog program is the UI backbone of Slackware's setup system,
> and is easily available online.)
> 
> The source code may be found here:
> http://www.bigfatdave.com/dave/bin/selection_box.c
> 
> ...and an i686 (glibc 2.3.2) precompiled version is here:
> http://www.bigfatdave.com/dave/bin/selection_box
> 
> To use it, simply pipe your $query_command into it.  It accepts up to
> BUFFERS-1 lines of input, where each line can be of the form "option"
> or "option<tab>explanation" and the special case of "option<tab>" is
> handled correctly, so the input can easily be autogenerated without you
> having to do too many of your own checks.  If you'd like a friendly
> message to appear at the top of the menu, make it the only argument
> to selection_box.  If no input lines are found, selection_box prints
> nothing to stdout.  If one input line is found, it'll print the option
> (without the explanation) to stdout without calling dialog.  Otherwise,
> it'll call dialog with the appropriate arguments.
> 
> Enjoy,
>  - Dave
> 
> -- 
> Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor?
> It's simple, Skyler.  You've seen what food processors do to food, right?
> 
> Please visit this link:
> http://rotter.net/israel
> GPG: fin




-- 
Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor?
It's simple, Skyler.  You've seen what food processors do to food, right?

Please visit this link:
http://rotter.net/israel

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