Re: Enhance mutt to recognize window resizing
Anders Rayner-Karlsson <anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>* Jeffery Small <jeff@xxxxxxxx> [20090401 09:15]:
>> Has there ever been any discussion regarding this issue? Other programs,
>> such as the vim editor, can deal with the terminal window being resized
>> while the program is running, but mutt is unforgiving. Mutt recognizes
>> the terminal size when started, but if you stretch or shorten the terminal
>> height or width during a running session, then the display can get totally
>> screwed up. Couldn't mutt be made to respond to these size changes the
>> same way vim does? It would make the program much more flexible.
>I don't know what version of mutt you are using, but the 1.5 branch
>have handled this for as long as I can remember using it. It could be
>dependent on your OS version, terminal program or factors outside of
>mutt's control.
Ah yes, you are correct. I'm still using version 1.4.2.1i because all
later versions have serious keyboard mapping problems on my Sun Solaris 10
SPARC system. I'm sure that it is related to ncurses and that there is
probably some solution for the problems I have, but I now remember spending
a huge amount of time trying to get my macros assigned to the function and
keypad keys to work under 1.5 and finally gave up and went back to 1.4. It
has been so long that I have been living with 1.4 that I forgot that I was
using the old version. Thanks for setting me straight and I'm sorry for
bringing up an old subject like this.
Regards,
--
Jeff