I still use mailx as my main mail user agent, with vim as VISUAL (v and ~v commands) editor. It's efficient, with helpers like metamail, and multiple xterms. I use vim's "set mouse=a" feature. vim catches mouse input, unless shift is down, where the xterm gets it as usual.
Since upgrading Sarge to Etch, vim has been exiting with SEGV or ABRT signals. It usually saves an up to date edit buffer. It leaves mailx hung, no prompt, no response to keystrokes. Keystrokes aren't even echoed. If I kill mailx, it exits, and I sort-of get the xterm back, but the mouse is still talking vi unless shifted. Unshifted mouse clicks turn into escape sequences sent to whatever is running in the xterm. Seems random. Always happens in visual edit mode, in response to a change or delete command. I suspected vim, so I went upstream and made a vim-7.0 from source. It's got the same problem. How to track this down? Not much point in reporting a bug if I don't even know what package it's in. I guess I'll try some other terminal for a while and see if that matters. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
