Re: Bug in display of subject fields containing TAB characters

Matt Ackeret <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Bert Driehuis wrote:
> The problem is that Pine calculates the subject width as if a tab is one
> space wide, then paints the screen letting the terminal settings determine
> the actual tab width. This causes the subject line to overflow in the next
> message's display space, which obviously is not intended behavior.

You're talking about at the index screen right?

Yeah, this is something I run into fairly frequently.  I'd try out a 
patch to alter this behavior.

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