[7647] in SIPB bug reports
w3m depends on xterm font choice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Mon Sep 25 10:45:02 2000
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To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:43:43 -0400
From: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>
When drawing tables with borders, w3m tries to draw nice lines around
the table and its cells. If $TERM is xterm, it uses some special line
drawing characters to do this. Unfortunately, while these characters
are found in the simple #x# X fonts (9x15, 10x20, etc.) they are not
in the xterm font I use when logged in from my Linux system at work:
-bitstream-courier-medium-r-normal-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
The result is that I need to type ^L frequently. w3m doesn't clear
the screen when it scrolls, instead relying on the new text to erase
the old. The missing line-drawing characters don't do anything so I
end up with two pages superimposed.
Setting TERM=ansi causes w3m to use +-| to draw lines. This is ugly
but legible. I can't think of any simple way for w3m to determine
what font is in use.
