On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 10:06:09PM +0100, benoit wrote: > Message de Thomas Dickey, le dimanche 28 décembre : > > 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: > > > 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. > > > thanks a lot, problem solved. > > picked up from README.Debian, for further reference : > > > Q: Why do I get #!$@#$@!% trailing spaces when I cut and paste from mutt > running within screen? > Q: Why does the statusbar in my irc client extend to the end of the screen > in xterm but not in screen? > > A: This has to do with handling of the bce terminal attribute, or lack > thereof by default in screen. You can enable bce on a per-user basis by > adding the following to your .screenrc: > > defbce on > term screen-bce Okay, now this is really interesting: I just checked on my running screens, and none of them have bce on. Why don't I get the funky spaces at the end of lines, then? - 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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