Re: The way mutt handles long lines, seems odd/wrong to me

2022-09-30 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
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

Re: The way mutt handles long lines, seems odd/wrong to me

2022-09-30 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 08:55:28PM +0200, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote: > > 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

Re: The way mutt handles long lines, seems odd/wrong to me

2022-09-30 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
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

The way mutt handles long lines, seems odd/wrong to me

2022-09-30 Thread Chris Green
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