mu4e missing chars

mu4e missing chars

[Luca Ferrari]

Hi all,
I suspect this has something to do with font faces, however when I
start mu4e on emacs 27.2, I cannot see the quick jump keys: they are
replaced with an asterisk, so that the whole screen is as follows:

* mu4e - mu for emacs version 0.9.9.5 C

  Basics

        * [*]ump to some maildir
        * enter a [*]earch query
        * [*]ompose a new message

  Bookmarks

        * [* ] Unread messages
        * [* ] Today's messages
        * [* ] Last 7 days
        * [* ] Messages with images


You can see, for example, that the first entry is "[*]ump to some
maildir" instead of "[j]ump to some maildir".
Anyone has a suggestion?

Thanks,
Luca

Re: mu4e missing chars

[Tassilo Horn]

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Luca,

> I suspect this has something to do with font faces, however when I
> start mu4e on emacs 27.2, I cannot see the quick jump keys: they are
> replaced with an asterisk, so that the whole screen is as follows:

Well, j is not some weird unicode character which might be missing from
all available fonts and even then you'd usually get a box character
instead of an asterisk.

> * mu4e - mu for emacs version 0.9.9.5 C

The very first thing I'd try is updating to a recent mu(4e) version.  Mu
0.9.9.5 is from 2013, the current release from 5 days ago is 1.6.6.  How
did you get that ancient version?

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: mu4e missing chars

[Yuchen Pei]

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Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> I suspect this has something to do with font faces, however when 
> I
> start mu4e on emacs 27.2, I cannot see the quick jump keys: they 
> are
> replaced with an asterisk, so that the whole screen is as 
> follows:
>
> * mu4e - mu for emacs version 0.9.9.5 C
>
>   Basics
>
>         * [*]ump to some maildir
>         * enter a [*]earch query
>         * [*]ompose a new message
>
>   Bookmarks
>
>         * [* ] Unread messages
>         * [* ] Today's messages
>         * [* ] Last 7 days
>         * [* ] Messages with images
>
>
> You can see, for example, that the first entry is "[*]ump to 
> some
> maildir" instead of "[j]ump to some maildir".
> Anyone has a suggestion?

If it is font faces, have you tried moving point to the place 
where it should be the bookmark jump keys, do `C-u C-x =` and 
inspect the result?

>
> Thanks,
> Luca


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Best,
Yuchen

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Re: mu4e missing chars

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:40:11 +0200, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I suspect this has something to do with font faces, however when I
> start mu4e on emacs 27.2, I cannot see the quick jump keys: they are
> replaced with an asterisk, so that the whole screen is as follows:
> 
> * mu4e - mu for emacs version 0.9.9.5 C

1. This version was released in 2013; latest stable version is 1.6.6!
2. There is a mailing list for mu(4e). Unfortunately it's hosted at
Google. :( https://groups.google.com/g/mu-discuss

(At the moment I only use mu for indexing and searching e-mails; my
main MUA is Wanderlust.)

--
Herbert

Re: mu4e missing chars

[Daniel Fleischer]

Herbert J. Skuhra [2021-09-10 Fri 13:02] wrote:

> 1. This version was released in 2013; latest stable version is 1.6.6!
> 2. There is a mailing list for mu(4e). Unfortunately it's hosted at
> Google. :( https://groups.google.com/g/mu-discuss

You can subscribe to it using gnus at
nntp+news.gmane.io:gmane.mail.mu.general. 

-- 

Daniel Fleischer

Re: mu4e missing chars

[Luca Ferrari]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:56 PM Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> wrote:
> If it is font faces, have you tried moving point to the place
> where it should be the bookmark jump keys, do `C-u C-x =` and
> inspect the result?


            position: 56 of 317 (17%), column: 11
           character: * (displayed as *) (codepoint 42, #o52, #x2a)
             charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
code point in charset: 0x2A
              script: latin
              syntax: _        which means: symbol
            category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman
            to input: type "C-x 8 RET 2a" or "C-x 8 RET ASTERISK"
         buffer code: #x2A
           file code: #x2A (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
             display: terminal code #x2A

Character code properties: customize what to show
 name: ASTERISK
 general-category: Po (Punctuation, Other)
 decomposition: (42) ('*')
There is an overlay here:
From 52 to 78
 face                 hl-line
 priority             -50
 window               #<window 1 on  *mu4e-main*>


There are text properties here:
 face                 mu4e-highlight-face
 keymap               [Show]

Re: mu4e missing chars

[Luca Ferrari]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:59 PM Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
> > * mu4e - mu for emacs version 0.9.9.5 C
>
> The very first thing I'd try is updating to a recent mu(4e) version.  Mu
> 0.9.9.5 is from 2013, the current release from 5 days ago is 1.6.6.  How
> did you get that ancient version?


I somehow downloaded from
<https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html>, since it is not
available on my Fedora repositories and I cannot install via emacs
package manager.
Is there a better way, I suspect, to get an updated version, could you
please suggest it?

Luca

Re: mu4e missing chars

[Daniel Fleischer]

Luca Ferrari [2021-09-13 Mon 14:23]  wrote:

> Is there a better way, I suspect, to get an updated version, could you
> please suggest it?

I would say the github project is the authoritative source. Stick to the
1.6.* version as it's the stable one.

<https://github.com/djcb/mu>

-- 

Daniel Fleischer


Daniel Fleischer

Re: mu4e missing chars

[Tassilo Horn]

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Luca,

>> The very first thing I'd try is updating to a recent mu(4e) version.
>> Mu 0.9.9.5 is from 2013, the current release from 5 days ago is
>> 1.6.6.  How did you get that ancient version?
>
> I somehow downloaded from
> <https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html>, since it is not
> available on my Fedora repositories and I cannot install via emacs
> package manager.  Is there a better way, I suspect, to get an updated
> version, could you please suggest it?

Have a look at the github page:

  https://github.com/djcb/mu/releases

HTH,
Tassilo

Re: mu4e missing chars

[Luca Ferrari]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 3:28 PM Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
> Have a look at the github page:
>
>   https://github.com/djcb/mu/releases

The problem is that the 1.6 version requires gmime-3 that is not (for
me) so simple to find and install on centos 7.
Suggestions are welcome!

Luca

Re: mu4e missing chars

[Tassilo Horn]

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Luca,

>> Have a look at the github page:
>>
>>   https://github.com/djcb/mu/releases
>
> The problem is that the 1.6 version requires gmime-3 that is not (for
> me) so simple to find and install on centos 7.  Suggestions are
> welcome!

I don't know CentOS and cannot even google a package database for it.
pgks.org indeed lists gmime-2.6 as latest version for CentOS 7.

But centos.org suggest there're also CentOS 8, and 9 and there are two
variants CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream where the former is mostly
deprecated and the latter intends to be more up-to-date.  Have a look at
https://centos.org/cl-vs-cs/.

Bye,
Tassilo