[152] in bug-owl
a few bugs/suggestions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chris avrich)
Thu Mar 13 17:43:42 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:43:40 -0500
From: chris avrich <cda@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-owl@MIT.EDU
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hi,
i've been playing around with owl lately, and i've noticed some things:
bugs:
when deleting the first zephyr in the list, the cursor sometimes does not
advance down to the next zephyr. i haven't been able to reliably reproduce
the bug, unfortunately, but it seems to happen about half the time. i'll
send further info if i can figure anything out.
owl clobbers my login location on a machine if i run it when zwgc is already
running there (i.e. on :0.0), so that the only location visible in zlocate
is the owl one. not sure if this is a feature or a bug...
perhaps this is a result of a kludge i put in my .zwgc.desc long ago, but
when i send myself a zephyr with a colored zsig, zwgc deals with it properly,
but owl changes the text color of the message to the color of the zsig.
the format i use is "@helvetica{@color{blue}sigtext}"; i've played around
with variations of it but to no avail.
suggestions:
there appears to be no way to turn off line wrapping on zephyrs you are
composing. i've tried setting the wrap width to something larger than
the terminal width (i.e. 100 columns on an 80-line terminal), but no dice.
this gets in the way of pasting long urls and such, and i generally don't
get along well with it.
it would be very useful to have a keybinding to repeat the previous zwrite
command (to use like up & enter on a terminal). (or maybe i just need to
get used to the "r" command ;)
zcrypt support on outgoing zephyrs would be stellar. i've tried to parse
jdaniel's .owlconf and related files (which seem like they might do this)
to no avail... if you have any suggestions for workarounds in the meantime,
i would really appreciate it. ideally i'd like to bind a key that starts
a "zcrypt -Z" command (much like 'z' starts a zwrite).
thanks for your time... owl's a nice piece of software =)
-chris
