Re: (fwd) on the tin menu "list thread" option

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.tin.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Michael Bienia wrote:

> On 2006-08-27 20:59:16 +0200, Urs Janßen wrote:
> [ forwarded message about use of last column ]
>
> It's not hard to change the mini help to also use the last column.
> It's a small change to help.c:show_mini_help() and
> screen.c:center_line().
>
> But I remember a discussion in Nov 2003
> (Msg-ID: <[email protected]>) about the use of the
> last column. The result was that there might be cases where the last
> column can't be used. Therefore tin uses cCOLS - 1 to be on the safe
> side.

There might be, but only with very old (or buggy) versions of curses.
For terminfo only, tin's not smart enough to do this.
So you probably should adjust it according to the way tin is built.

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