On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 03:37:43PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> Actually, it *does* work -- for a time -- as I have indicated; or, at
> least this does for me:
If it does, it's only because the xterm you're running mutt in has been
told to use 'mutt' as it's name, rather than 'xterm'. The application
paying attention to the mouse is still xterm.
> However, it does not last more than a couple hours, after which it is
> entirely useless.
Then something you do in those "couple hours" alters things.
> What I really, really want to do with the mouse is to use the scroll
> wheel to _slowly_ page up and page down -- one line at a time -- in the
> pager while reading _l-l-l-o-o-o-n-n-n-g-g-g_ messages. Your suggestion
> does *not* do that for me . . .
It doesn't? What do you think this does?
<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>: string("OA") \n\
<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>: string("OB")\n\ ' \
That says "when you see a Btn4Down event followed by a Btn4Up event, send
Escape+O+A to the window". That's UP.
It also says "when you see a Btn5Down event followed by a Btn5Up event,
send Escape+O+B to the window". That's DOWN.
It doesn't matter whether mutt is in the index or the pager. The arrow
keys are being sent to it... what it does with them is its own business.
Now... if you've told mutt to *ignore* the arrow keys, or you're using them
for something else, then no, this wouldn't do what you expect. Make it
send whatever YOU need it to send. Make it send the less_than and
greater_than keys, if that's what you've configured mutt to use for
scrolling.
> > # mousewheel scrolls single lines
>
> *Only* in the index?
The fact that you think the arrow keys only work in the index makes it more
plain that you've remapped them somehow for the pager.
> > # shift-mousewheel scrolls two lines
> > # ctrl-mousewheel scrolls four lines
>
> Very nice touch -- especially, if it did so in the pager . . .
It does... see above.
> > unset LC_ALL
> > export LANG=en_US
> > export LC_COLLATE=C
>
> Personally, I never understand why -- in a long list -- anybody wants to sort this:
>
> a
> b
> C
>
> like this ?!?!
>
> C
> a
> b
Who said that was what I was after? The en_US locale ignores punctuation
characters in a sort, which means that:
1 -rw-rw---- 1 mwilson mail 151361 Sep 07 17:10 /var/spool/mail/mwilson
2 N -rw------- 1 mwilson mwilson 15230038 Sep 07 19:20 =_caughtspam
3 N -rw------- 1 mwilson mwilson 11215 Sep 07 13:50 =_junkfile
4 N -rw------- 1 mwilson mwilson 15257655 Sep 07 17:40 =blackbox-ml
5 N -rw------- 1 mwilson mwilson 2731866 Sep 06 17:30 =bugtraq-ml
ends up looking like:
1 N -rw------- 1 mwilson mwilson 15257655 Sep 07 17:40 =blackbox-ml
2 N -rw------- 1 mwilson mwilson 2731866 Sep 06 17:30 =bugtraq-ml
3 N -rw------- 1 mwilson mwilson 15230038 Sep 07 19:20 =_caughtspam
4 N -rw------- 1 mwilson mwilson 11215 Sep 07 13:50 =_junkfile
5 -rw-rw---- 1 mwilson mail 151361 Sep 07 17:10 /var/spool/mail/mwilson
Which would be fine if there weren't any mailboxes after 'j', but there
are. It's ANNOYING.
> So, all in all, I learned something valuable from your exercise; but, I
> still cannot understand howto use the mouse scroll wheel to scroll up
> and down in long messages.
>
> What do you think?
I think you've got things confused between mutt and the xterm it's running
in and who has control of and who's listening to the mouse. I think you've
reconfigured the default keybindings in mutt such that the arrow keys do
not scroll single lines in the pager. I think that you've got some
application or process not yet described that modifies the X resource
database and alters in some way the settings for the xterm you're running
mutt in.
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