On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:17:48AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 04:38:06PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote: > > > > BTW - There's no real need to CC me. I'm subscribed to the list ;-P > > > > > > I forget this about once a week... > > > > Really? I thought it'd be a little harder for anybody here to forget said > > fact (except the multitude that probably procmail(8)s me to /dev/null(4), > > of course) ... I guess I need to post a tad more often, eh? ;-P > > mutt-dev/mutt-users appears to be the only one that I reply to which sets > up the headers to confuse pine (ymmv). I use pine on one of my ISP's, > mutt on another (and mutt on my local boxes). Be patient... Um, oh, I see ... you use that "barebone" MUA (according to the guys at PC Magazine - can't blame me) from www.washington.edu ;-P > > > > Oh, so the assumption is that the Linux console is optimized for back > > > > color erase, I take it? > > > > > > yes. And screen was originally written to model a DEC terminal that > > > didn't do that. The bce option is only a couple of years old. > > > > Oh, so that'd explain why the xterm mouse screws up its copy/paste. > > I modified xterm a while back to show the selected text - it used to > simply highlight the whole line. So it's easy to be aware of what's > going on. All of the programs that I might paste into can easily > trim trailing blanks, so it's more of an faq than anything else. /me knows very little about xterms ... running a real tty seems to make far more sense than firing up X just to get a window emulating a tty. . . - 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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