1. Do you see any of what you describe with Debian's stock Alpine?
2. What version of Alpine are you compiling?
I've been a regular Alpine user on all platforms (to include several Linux
distros) since before the 1.0 release and have never seen what you
describe. I'm now typing this message in Alpine 2.11 under Debian/Jessie.
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John L. Ries |
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote:
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
