Re: Terminal Madness?
I am not an alpine user, but I would make sure that there are no
instances of alpine running.
ps -ef | grep alpine
Sometimes the bear wins.
Mike
On 09/28/2015 04:26 PM, John L. Ries wrote:
> 1. Do you see any of what you describe with Debian's stock Alpine?
> 2. What version of Alpine are you compiling?
>
> I've been a regular Alpine user on all platforms (to include several
> Linux distros) since before the 1.0 release and have never seen what you
> describe. I'm now typing this message in Alpine 2.11 under Debian/Jessie.
>
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> On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>
>> I run alpine, built from source, on my Jessie:
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> Linux debian.localdomain 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian
>> 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u4 (2015-09-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Alpine lately seems to have trouble "remembering" changes made
>> by me to its config, e.g. adding new folders for additional
>> remote imap hosts. That is, I make a change, such as adding a
>> new folder, but if for some reason I have to exit alpine, when I
>> re-launch it the changes are not there.
>>
>> My fix was to delete .pinerc and launch alpine from "scratch,"
>> rebuilding the config I need "by hand." NOW, here you may well
>> ask,
>>
>> "But Bob! Surely this is a question for the alpine list, not a
>> debian list, n'est-ce pas?"
>>
>> But wait! Now I see my new hand-cranked config is not behaving;
>> changes made are not working. I close alpine, and as I edit in
>> jed the .pinerc lines that are misbehaving I notice they have
>> been altered ("corrupted"). Then (my hand to God I) AS I STARE
>> AT THE LINES IN JED CHARACTERS ARE CHANGING "ON THEIR OWN"
>> WITHOUT ME TOUCHING A KEY.
>>
>> I am in an xterm window running in icewm, and its config looks
>> like this:
>>
>> xterm -fg white -bg black -geometry x26 -fa 'Deja vu Sans Bold'
>> -fs 24
>>
>> (I've since changed to Luxi Mono just as a test of sorts.)
>>
>> ===> Has anyone EVA seen text file characters in an editor just
>> change before their eyes without any intervention from the
>> operator?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bob Bernstein
>>
>>
>
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