M-x term + mutt problem

M-x term + mutt problem

[Mark Plaksin]

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A friend of mine is having trouble with mutt inside M-x term on Debian
unstable (mutt version 1.5.17+20080114-1+b1).  mutt works fine with
xterm so I suspect M-x term.

Sometimes mutt sends a lot of extra spaces at the end of a line.  xterm
makes those spaces disappear somehow but M-x term displays them all so
the line wraps.  mutt sends the extra spaces frequently enough that the
screen soon gets garbled.

An example line collect with term-start-output-log is attached.


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Re: M-x term + mutt problem

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org> writes:

  > A friend of mine is having trouble with mutt inside M-x term on Debian
  > unstable (mutt version 1.5.17+20080114-1+b1).  mutt works fine with
  > xterm so I suspect M-x term.

What version of emacs are you using?

  > Sometimes mutt sends a lot of extra spaces at the end of a line.  xterm
  > makes those spaces disappear somehow but M-x term displays them all so
  > the line wraps.  mutt sends the extra spaces frequently enough that the
  > screen soon gets garbled.
  > 
  > An example line collect with term-start-output-log is attached.

This makes the line wrap on an xterm here...

Can you please send a more precise recipe on how to reproduce this?
Preferably starting from emacs -Q


Starting/quitting mutt seems to work just fine here (no idea how to do
more than that with mutt...)