On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:55:51PM +0600, Andrey R. Urazov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sometimes I receive letters which contain undisplayable characters which
> affect my terminal state. After displaying such a message on the screen
> the terminal refuses to delete anything from the screen and this yields
> in lots of garbage on the display, because new information which is
> being displayed is written on top of the old. I know that Pine is
> capable of preventing such a damage by default, it outputs all dangerous
> characters as circumflexes (^^). Is it possible to do something like
> that with mutt?
Other people have already responded to that, but another point is that
if your screen does get messed up, control-L is a useful way to redraw
it.
-Daniel
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Daniel E. Eisenbud
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"We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of
undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed
hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms."
--Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"
