Re: Mutt tty problems on Mac OS X 10.5.4 and mutt 1.5.18
I'm using pretty much the same combination without any trouble.
One key point is to make sure that mutt and the terminal agree about
the terminal emulation (try xterm-color) and the character set (try
utf-8).
In Terminal.app, use the Advanced tab in the settings dialogue to
change these points.
Regards,
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Thomas Roessler <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 2008-08-19 15:02:48 -0700, felix@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:02:48 -0700
> Subject: Mutt tty problems on Mac OS X 10.5.4 and mutt 1.5.18
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> I have a relatively new Max Pro Book (Book Pro?) running OS X 10.5.4
> and mutt 1.5.18. Using a standard Terminal with the default TERM
> value of xterm, mutt has a terrible time displaying, with two symptom
> that I have seen:
>
> 1. Re: Subject: headers show up in the summary display as lots of ~T
> with a few other line noise chars thrown in for good measure. The
> original message which starts the thread has its Subject: displayed
> properly. I don't think it is the replies being garbled or in
> some other character set because all Subject: headers look fine
> when I read the actual message. This is always repeatable.
>
> 2. When you hit SPACE to read the body of a message, then finish and
> "q" back to the summary listing, sometimes the previous message
> display does not clear first and the summary is simply written on
> top of it, requiring ^L to clean up the summary listing. This is
> only sometimes, not always, and I have tried changing TERM to
> vt100 with no effect (it is the default xterm).
>
> I have other machines I ssh into and use mutt on them and never have
> seen these problems, either using ssh on this Mac or on other computers.
>
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