Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-25, Wu, Yue wrote: > Still want to say, if manual.txt.gzip isn't a real plain text, > it should be renamed to a more proper and clear name. And > please put a full version of > manual.txt[http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.txt] on the > offical website. > > What do you think? I agr

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-25 Thread Wu, Yue
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 01:57:45AM -0400, James Michael Fultz wrote: > * "Wu, Yue" [2009-09-25 13:22 +0800]: > [ ... ] > > Hi James, > > > > I've tried `col -b` and `col -bp`, both produce errors and stop immatiatly. > > > > y...@bsd ~ > cat manual.txt | col -b -p > > > >9.14. Defau

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-24 Thread James Michael Fultz
* "Wu, Yue" [2009-09-25 13:22 +0800]: [ ... ] > Hi James, > > I've tried `col -b` and `col -bp`, both produce errors and stop immatiatly. > > y...@bsd ~ > cat manual.txt | col -b -p > >9.14. Default editor Function Bindings > >col: Illegal byte sequence Curious. While the

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-24 Thread Wu, Yue
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:40:15PM -0400, James Michael Fultz wrote: > > There's an explanation to be found in less' man page and Mutt's > manual. > > > > "Also, the internal pager supports a couple other advanced > features. For one, it will

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-24 Thread James Michael Fultz
* "Wu, Yue" [2009-09-25 07:49 +0800]: [ ... ] > Also, I don't know how to view the file as a plain text, when I > try to view it by vim, the garbage charactors full-filled with > my screen. > > `less` is ok. Maybe the file contains many control sequences > that vim can't recorgnize but `less` can

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-24 Thread Wu, Yue
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 03:20:39PM +0200, Joost Kremers wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 03:12:53PM +0200, Michael Wagner wrote: > > * Wu, Yue 24.09.2009 > > > y...@bsd ~/gtd/stuff > gzip -tv manual.txt.gz > > > gzip: manual.txt.gz: not in gzip format > > > manual.txt.gz:NOT OK > > > > I don'

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-24 Thread Joost Kremers
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 03:12:53PM +0200, Michael Wagner wrote: > * Wu, Yue 24.09.2009 > > y...@bsd ~/gtd/stuff > gzip -tv manual.txt.gz > > gzip: manual.txt.gz: not in gzip format > > manual.txt.gz:NOT OK > > I don't understand it. Here is all ok. I've seen it happen before that a browser s

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-24 Thread Michael Wagner
* Wu, Yue 24.09.2009 > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 06:09:38PM +0200, Michael Wagner wrote: > > the version at http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.txt.gz is a gzipped > > file. I've downloaded it for testing and everything is allright with the > > it. Also when I visited the side with different te

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-24 Thread Wu, Yue
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 06:09:38PM +0200, Michael Wagner wrote: > * Wu, Yue 23.09.2009 > > In mutt offical site, the documentation for devel version: > > > > text version: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.txt > > > > is an uncompleted version, which just give a table of contents and the

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-23 Thread James Michael Fultz
* Noah Sheppard [2009-09-23 14:44 -0400]: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:37:21PM -0400, James Michael Fultz > wrote: [ ... ] > > Try less and 'col -b manual.txt | less' if the former doesn't > > display cleanly. The col command will strip embedded > > backspace sequences. > > That worked, thanks f

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-23, Noah Sheppard wrote: > Perhaps there is some character in manual.txt which is causing > truncation somewhere, perhaps server-side, or perhaps in wget, less, and > firefox (for the uncompressed manual.txt). I'm pretty sure it's not in wget, since you can use wget to download files

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-23 Thread Noah Sheppard
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:44:40PM -0400, Noah Sheppard wrote: > [ ... ] > Perhaps there is some character in manual.txt which is causing > truncation somewhere, perhaps server-side, or perhaps in wget, less, and > firefox (for the uncompressed manual.txt). Maybe some library on our > systems com

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-23 Thread Noah Sheppard
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:37:21PM -0400, James Michael Fultz wrote: > [ ... ] > > When I download manual.txt.gz with wget and then unzip it and > > vim the result, I again see alternating valid character and > > <##> (I have "set display+=uhex in my .vimrc). This may very > > well be a configura

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-23 Thread James Michael Fultz
* Noah Sheppard [2009-09-23 12:36]: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 06:09:38PM +0200, Michael Wagner wrote: > > * Wu, Yue 23.09.2009 > > > In mutt offical site, the documentation for devel version: > > > > > > text version: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.txt > > > > > > is an uncompleted ve

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-23 Thread Michael Wagner
* Gary Johnson 23.09.2009 > On 2009-09-23, Michael Wagner wrote: > > * Wu, Yue 23.09.2009 > > > In mutt offical site, the documentation for devel version: > > > > > > text version: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.txt > > > > > > is an uncompleted version, which just give a table of con

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-23 Thread Noah Sheppard
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 06:09:38PM +0200, Michael Wagner wrote: > * Wu, Yue 23.09.2009 > > In mutt offical site, the documentation for devel version: > > > > text version: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.txt > > > > is an uncompleted version, which just give a table of contents and the

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-23, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2009-09-23, Michael Wagner wrote: >> * Wu, Yue 23.09.2009 >> > In mutt offical site, the documentation for devel version: >> > >> > text version: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.txt >> > >> > is an uncompleted version, which just give a table of

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-23 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-09-23, Michael Wagner wrote: > * Wu, Yue 23.09.2009 > > In mutt offical site, the documentation for devel version: > > > > text version: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.txt > > > > is an uncompleted version, which just give a table of contents and the first > > chapter. > > > >

Re: Offical site's uncomplete manual.txt and broken manual.txt.gz

2009-09-23 Thread Michael Wagner
* Wu, Yue 23.09.2009 > In mutt offical site, the documentation for devel version: > > text version: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.txt > > is an uncompleted version, which just give a table of contents and the first > chapter. > > text gzipped version: http://www.mutt.org/doc/deve