On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:32:40PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, benoit wrote: > > Message de David Yitzchak Cohen, le samedi 27 décembre : > > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 04:29:57PM +0100, benoit wrote: > > > > each time i want to copy and paste a text from mutt, i have to pipe the > > > > mail to less because the lines in the pager body end with white spaces. > > > > > > > > why not \n ? is it possible to change this ? > > > > > > Can you provide a test message? I tried using copy/paste from your > > > message, and lines ended correctly. What are you using to copy/paste, > > > anyway? I'm using GNU Screen 3.9.15, FWIW. > > > > > > you're right, it's not a mutt-related problem. > > for each mail opened in the pager, the body lines are padded with white > > spaces, when using screen (4.00.01 (FAU) 18-Sep-03) > > > > without screen, it's fine. with screen, i can still pipe the mail to > > less : there's no spaces. > > It's because of the way xterm (and similar programs) store the text which > can be selected. If you setup screen to use the back-color-erase (bce) > configuration, the problem goes away. Um, I don't know. My GNU Screen config is pretty standard, and when I use "$" within the copy mode, it goes to the end of the printed line, rather than some distance past the last character. I don't recall anything about back-color-erase. (My GNU Screen is installed from source with very little customization, not some prepackaged distro.) - 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
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