Re: sporadic acs characters problem with Mutt in Terminal.app

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wednesday, July  1 at 04:42 PM, quoth William Yardley:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:47:44AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
>>
>> Weird... That sounds like something might be wrong either with your 
>> terminal library or your termcap. What terminal do you use, and what's 
>> the value of $TERM?
>>
>> (I'm assuming that since you use OpenBSD you know what I'm talking 
>> about. :)
>
> Both was answered in my original post, and the version of ncurses is the 
> one that's mentioned in mutt -v (should be 5.2.20010224).

Ooops, sorry, I should have re-read the top.

For what it's worth, I've found nsterm-16color (with one or two 
modifications) to be the best TERM entry for my Apple Terminal. But 
since not all versions of ncurses have it (and since I modified it a 
little), I keep a copy handy in ~/.termcap/.

> Agreed that maybe something is wrong, but the point is that 
> generally, they work fine. It's just that occasionally, something 
> gets goofed up.

Well, that's the thing with terminal stuff - you can be "mostly right" 
and never know anything's amiss until you use whatever rare feature 
happens to be set up wrong.

But after re-reading your original email, I don't think it's a TERM 
thing. Since it doesn't affect the $editor, it sounds like it is 
something getting messed up in mutt's internals (or the terminal 
library), rather than something getting messed up in the terminal 
itself.

That version of ncurses is awfully old; assuming that minor version 
number is a date, your ncurses is almost a decade old by now. It's 
entirely possible there's a bug in it that they've long-since fixed. 
Is it possible to install a more recent version of ncurses?

~Kyle
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