On 2005-10-25 17:28:14 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I invite you to talk to Thomas about that one; he may well agree.
> That doesn't affect the general case.

I've just seen that it was fixed two years ago. From the ncurses
changelog:

20030719
    + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
      paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
      (request by Vincent Lefevre).

Indeed I haven't had any problem with Mutt in an xterm for quite a
while, IIRC.

However, there are many problems with Mutt in an iTerm under Mac OS X:
I don't even always get newline characters. So, here, copy-paste of
C code with continuation lines would definitively lead to incorrect
behavior, whatever gcc does.

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