Copying text from Mutt viewer also copies trailing space

[Matthias Apitz]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:02:36 +0100, Vegard Svanberg wrote:
> * mutt at raf.org <mutt at raf.org> [2019-01-02 05:37]:
>
>> > > When I copy text from Mutt into whatever else (vim, text 
>> editor, browser
>> > > textarea... doesn't matter), the paste includes the (trailing) spaces
>> > > (\s) from column 80-120, so I have to manually remove them.
>> 
>> for me it happens when mutt is in tmux or screen in xterm,
>> pasting into gvim.
> [snip]
>
> Thanks for the useful feedback! I use gnome-terminal at the moment so I
> don't have that option, however hunting around the web with my
> Go(o)g(g)les on, I found this:
>
> https://mutt-users.mutt.narkive.com/Qw2cfXkS/mutt-gnome-terminal-and-whitespace-fill-issue
>
> So seems this has been discussed before and that it has to do with the
> way Mutt sets the background colour, or something like that.
>
> There was a suggestion in there to #undef HAVE_BKGDSET in config.h, but
> that didn't make any difference for me. There was also a reference to
> the ol' trac at dev.mutt.org, but that site isn't online anymore.
>
> Anyway, will keep hunting - at least this thread confirms I'm not alone. :)

+1
(me too)

btw: the URL gives error HTTP 500

matthias


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