On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:04:13PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:49:20PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > I don't see anything in the Mutt doc that says trailing space(s) get > > stripped in the pager... and I can't see it being an xterm thing, so what's > > up?
My mutt displays the trailing spaces OK: Linux vt, xterm, uxterm, Eterm. It looks like an ill-devised optimization in the screen-writing code. AFAICT, the mutt people like such things. There probably isn't a variable to control this. [...] > rei $ mutt -version > Mutt 1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i (2003-11-05) > Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others. > Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. > Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it > under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. > > System: Linux 2.4.24 (i686) [using ncurses 5.3] [using libidn 0.3.4 (compiled with > 0.3.4)] % mutt -version Mutt 1.3.28i (2002-03-13) Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: Linux 2.4.25-jan (i686) [using ncurses 5.2] Compile options: [...] HTH. [BTW: This inspired me to get a new .signature.] -- ``You know those mail clients: MS Outlook, mail(1), or even telnet(1). All of them suck. This one just sucks less.''
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