Re: Re: [Alpine-info]  character makes index among other things go wrong

Mark Crispin mrc+uw at panda.com
Fri May 29 13:11:53 PDT 2009


On Fri, 29 May 2009, David Morris wrote:

> I wonder if an intermediate solution would be to allow alpine to utilize a

> user furnished width table?


It sounds like a simple, attractive, idea, but we are talking about
thousands, if not tens of thousands, of characters.

Not only that, but it will change when you use a different terminal
emulator. Or a different font.

-- Mark --

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