On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 02:42:09PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
I'm am also pretty sure that it's the mutt pager doing this as other
programs (i.e. less) wrap long lines in a terminal window but don't
chop them into pieces like mutt's pager.
Mutt uses ncurses to draw on the screen, which is a
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 08:55:28PM +0200, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote:
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> Chris Green wrote (Fri 2022-Sep-30 14:42:09 +0100):
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> > So, when there is a long string of text in a message that is longer
> > than the width of the terminal and has no spaces in it mutt *always*
> > breaks the line at
Chris Green wrote (Fri 2022-Sep-30 14:42:09 +0100):
> So, when there is a long string of text in a message that is longer
> than the width of the terminal and has no spaces in it mutt *always*
> breaks the line at the RHS of the terminal window and displays the
> rest of the line on separate
I have been playing with the various mutt settings which affect how
long lines are managed (in the pager in particular).
By 'long lines' I mean strings of text which have no spaces in them
and which are longer than the width of the terminal window. The
handling of text made up of words with