I run alpine, built from source, on my Jessie:
$ uname -a
Linux debian.localdomain 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian
3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u4 (2015-09-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Alpine lately seems to have trouble "remembering" changes made
by me to its config, e.g. adding new folders for additional
remote imap hosts. That is, I make a change, such as adding a
new folder, but if for some reason I have to exit alpine, when I
re-launch it the changes are not there.
My fix was to delete .pinerc and launch alpine from "scratch,"
rebuilding the config I need "by hand." NOW, here you may well
ask,
"But Bob! Surely this is a question for the alpine list, not a
debian list, n'est-ce pas?"
But wait! Now I see my new hand-cranked config is not behaving;
changes made are not working. I close alpine, and as I edit in
jed the .pinerc lines that are misbehaving I notice they have
been altered ("corrupted"). Then (my hand to God I) AS I STARE
AT THE LINES IN JED CHARACTERS ARE CHANGING "ON THEIR OWN"
WITHOUT ME TOUCHING A KEY.
I am in an xterm window running in icewm, and its config looks
like this:
xterm -fg white -bg black -geometry x26 -fa 'Deja vu Sans Bold'
-fs 24
(I've since changed to Luxi Mono just as a test of sorts.)
===> Has anyone EVA seen text file characters in an editor just
change before their eyes without any intervention from the
operator?
--
Bob Bernstein
