021126 Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:22:52PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> i am running Lynx 2-8-5dev.6 in a KDE Konsole window on Mandrake Linux 9.0rc1. >> when i use (p)rint + Mutt to e-mail a news story to someone, >> the command-lines for 'to', 'cc' & 'subject' do not redraw correctly >> when i make a mistake & try to backspace: characters which sb deleted remain >> & the only way out is to backspace to the beginning of the line >> & re-enter the whole list of recipients or subject again. >> this started when i had KDE start Lynx in Konsole automatically, >> rather than manually entering 'lynx' at an empty Konsole prompt. >> Lynx was compiled with Ncurses & is otherwise very stable; >> there is also no problem using Mutt on its own. > Perhaps konsole is running with a UTF-8 locale. In that situation, even > if you're not using wide-characters, the character classifications aren't > working as one would expect.
ahah! the problem does involve the cursor jumping around as if with tabs & after poking around (Konsole help & configure contain nothing) i find under Mdk Control Centre -> System -> Menus -> Terminals -> Konsole 'Extended Attributes/Values': "kde_opt \\nEncoding=UTF-8\\<other values>". should i simply delete "\\n...8" or replace "UTF-8" with something else? i hesitate to cure 1 small problem by introducing many bigger ones ... -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
