[Alpine-info] UTF8 test

[Lucio Chiappetti]

On Wed, 6 May 2009, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:



>>  so I use a larger font to avoid swapping glasses :-))

> You might be as old as me (51 years this month).


slightly more (being born the year Einstein died :-))


>>  Concerning the window where alpine runs, [...] only yesterday [...] I

>>  realized that alpine *IS NOT* using the scrollbar ... it's there but

>>  is always 100% full !

>

> That's true.  If there was other text on the screen when alpine started, 

> you should be able to scroll back through it using the scroll bar and 

> alpine will scroll off of the screen while you do that.


ah yes ... but I'm used to run alpine "in its own window" (alias of the 
sort "urxvt -e script running alpine").

I wonder (assuming there is still an alpine development team) if it would 
make sense to have a native X application embedding alpine ... sort of 
PC-Pine, or the sort of thing the Hessling Editor 
(http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/) does. There is "the" running in 
whatever terminal/shell, and "xthe" running in its own window.

Curiously enough I use xthe as my preferred editor, but use the as 
alternate editor from within alpine (in the same (u)rxvt)


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