[7619] in SIPB bug reports
Re: pine issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Thu Aug 3 12:46:22 2000
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:46:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: but-sipb@MIT.EDU
To: Larry Baskett <biglar@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21L.0008021428510.1772-100000@surveyor.mit.edu>
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On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Larry Baskett wrote:
> Angie Kelic gave me your email address--I'm running pine on surveyor, a
> redhat 6.2, athena-8.4 layered machine. For some reason, the selection
> highlight covers all the text on the screen, instead of just highlighting
> the selected item in a menu. Even when I'm typing an email, the
> highlighting covers every character except the spaces. Is there a fix for
> this? The pine I'm running is /mit/sipb/arch/i386_linux22/bin/pine.
(I'll assume that when you say that "selection highlighting"
you're talking about doing it while you're composing email.)
You're experiencing a bug somewhere along the chain of the
application (pine), the terminal-handling libraries (termcap or
terminfo), and your terminal itself (xterm or linux console or
whatever else you're using). I can successfully use selection
highlighting when I compose in pine sessions that I run, so this
shifts my attention on to the terminal-handling libraries, or the
terminal itself.
Could you try changing some parameters, and seeing if pine's
behavior changes? The easiest would be for you to try using a
different terminal -- if you usually use xterm, try it in the
console. Or try one of the other emulators, like rxvt.
I doubt that I'll be able to do anything to pine to help you, but
I may be able to offer suggestions on how to change your terminal
setup.
I hope this helps,
Jacob Morzinski
MIT SIPB
