On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:10:49PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:05:52AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 08:42:17AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > > perhaps related (but not with the iso10646 fonts - but I've seen people > > > changing the fonts in uxterm to use TrueType fonts): > > > > > > Patch #194 - 2004/7/27 - XFree86 4.4.99.11 > > > > > > * fix a repainting bug introduced in patch #180: when using a font > > > lacking line-drawing characters, a repaint of the screen could > > > skip horizontally an extra amount after filling in the missing > > > character (reports by Nicolas George, Hans de Goede, Redhat > > > Bugzilla #128341). > > > > This does sound similar to the effect that I see. > > The fix I made only applies to a case where the font doesn't contain > line-drawing characters (so I'm curious if it's the same case you're > reporting, or some other corner that has been overlooked). It's easy > to check if the line-drawing characters are missing (the control right > mouse menu has an entry which can suppress xterm's built-in line-drawing, > and use whatever the font actually does).
If I check "Line-drawing characters" when mutt is running, the line-drawing characters it uses for threading are no longer displayed. If I do the same with the hdparm man page, some of the spacing changes (though in odd and varying ways). I have the standard xfonts-* packages installed, and UXTerm*font: 9x15. -- - mdz