[7623] in SIPB bug reports
Re: pine issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Baskett)
Wed Aug 16 12:44:19 2000
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 12:44:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Larry Baskett <biglar@MIT.EDU>
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
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Turns out I had some terminal settings screwed up--Thanks, Larry
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Jacob Morzinski wrote:
> 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
>
>
