Ncurses is a clone of the original system v release 4. For a full description of what mutt can do, please read the mutt manual. The slang programming library is a software library for unix, windows, vms, os2, and mac. Ncurses is in core so theres a greater chance people already have it installed. It was modified by michael gran to make it specific to the guile binding. Why is default not recognized when mutt with ncurses 5. These mails from mutt dev dbnet net can be related to ncurses 5. Actually an oldstylish snakegame in characteric window. If your mutt is linked against slang check with mutt v grep using, try to link. Mutt uses slang s curses emulation layer, which i do not recommend using. In my final message in that thread solved, i stated that i was starting to like the slang support, and the reason for that was consistent colorization. Mutt is highly configurable, and is well suited to the mail power user with advanced features like key bindings, keyboard macros, mail threading, regular expression searches and a powerful pattern matching language for selecting groups of messages.
It is a freely distributable library, fully compatible with older version of curses. Whether youre a beginner starting with the basics or looking to practice your reading, writing, and. For example, when using the slang library, getch returns err and. Ok, first i want to say thanks to those of you who helped me troubleshoot the problem i was having with the pager. See the updating file, or for more details see the release notes page. It sends the attachment, but carriage returns for each line are striped and it comes as all one line.
Learn spanish in just 5 minutes a day with our gamelike lessons. In the remainder of the document, the terms curses and ncurses are used. If you have a little free time and you want to practise, you could make the todo list, which i. Full manual pages are provided for the library and tools. Precisely because mutt doesnt impose restrictions or favor one. Notice how the highlighting is all broken up by whitespace with slang whereas highlighting is continuous with ncurses. Comparing top to htop or alpine to mutt shows which approach is superior. Teach your old mutt some new tricks geeks are sexy. Are there any tutorials out there or do i have to read sources i. We graduate from a simple hello world program to more complex form manipulation. If youre not a fan of email clients with fancy graphical user interfaces, or you just like.
Using the interpreter meant either embedding it in a c program, or using it in the. In this video tutorial which actully the first in a series i would like to tell you the basics of the ncurses and write the hello world program with ncurses too. Again, ive put his name on the title page, because it would seem rude not to do so. Ncurses seems to be the default build configuration. The emulation was written primarily for me to test the slsmg routines by taking advantage of several test programs written for curses. I guess whatever license ncurses uses applies, otherwise public domain. All thats documented in the newspipe manual, so ill leave that as an exercise. Ive attached two images of what mutt looks like with slang and with ncurses.
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