For a long time now Alpine would sometimes show the following in its
status bar below:
NULL ice in paint_index_line: reg index, msgno=9,238 line=41
The "mesgno" keeps changing while this notice is being displayed. When
this happens, i.e. when this notice is displayed, one can use
Alpine...somewhat. I can change folders, and scroll through messages, but
not always. Sometimes key presses are ignored and Alpine appears stuck. If
I'm lucky I can QUIT Alpine in an orderly fashion, but most of time the
times I find myself TERMinating the Alpine process in another terminal
window.
I usually have Alpine running on a headless Linux host in a long running
GNU/screen session, and always suspected this to be related to maybe
Alpine getting confused about its screen size or something and I have
ignored it for some years now. But I noticed that this keeps happening
more often now and switch from GNU/screen to Tmux, but that dreaded notice
appears again, and again. So, it does not seem to be related to its use
within GNU/screen or Tmux.
Also, I switched from Gnome Terminal (under Fedora Linux) to Terminal.app
(macOS) some time ago, but that does not seem to be related to that notice
either, Alpine still displays it more often than not :(
I'm tracking the latest Alpine version from Git (currently 2e10831) and
compile it myself on this Linux machine:
./configure --prefix=/opt/alpine --disable-debug --disable-mouse \
--disable-keyboard-lock --without-krb5 --without-ldap --without-tcl \
--without-ntlm --with-ssl --with-default-dead-letter-folder=.dead-letter
I have found but a single email posting[0] on this list from February 2024
where this notice is mentioned too, but the issue wasn't discussed much.
Does anyone have an idea what's going on here, and why this notice would
occur? And how to prevent this from happening, maybe? :-)
Thanks,
Christian.
[0]
https://mailman23.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2024-February/000429.html
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