Re: BUG REPORT tin 1.7.10 release 20050716 ("Grimsay") [UNIX]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:52:23AM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Version: tin 1.7.10 release 20050716 ("Grimsay") Jul 17 2005 00:12:27
> 	LIBS     = "-lcurses"
[...]
> 	-MIME_BREAK_LONG_LINES +MIME_STRICT_CHARSET +CHARSET_CONVERSION
> 	+MULTIBYTE_ABLE -NO_LOCALE
>
> I just compiled snapshot of 1.7.10 and found two bugs. If I have _no_
> file /etc/tin/keymap or ~/.tin/keymap, some key bindings are missing. For
> example there is no TAB key in group level anymore and SPACE doesn't
> work with the help pager. If I copy doc/keymap.sample to /etc/tin/keymap
> I got all the familiar keys working. I've never used any keymap file, so
> is this odd (at least to me) change in defaults made on purpose?

no, this is a bug (I have an idea why this happens: same functions are bound
to several keys (e.g. SELECT_ENTER_NEXT_UNREAD_GROUP to 'n' and '\t'), but
the new override code can't handle this).

> Second bug is in the config menu (M). This one is hard to explain. When
> I scroll down the screen with PgDn to near the end of all the options
> and then start scrolling up with cursor up key, the screen is not
> updated correctly. The '->' mark moves up but big part of the lower part
> of the screen remains empty. CTRL-L fixes this though. I noticed this
> problem with 1.7.9 too.

sounds like a curses problem - simple workaround: configure
--with-screen=ncurses (or ncursesw if you like full wide-char support).

urs
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