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Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 07:42:12 EDT
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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: summary of Elm 1.5b bugs
Keywords: the bugs I've run into
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Date: 8 Sep 87 16:50:04 GMT
Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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Posted: Tue Sep  8 09:50:04 1987

I don't recall which of the following I've already reported previously,
so here they all are:


- standout bar has leading and trailing '2' on vt100 - buggy termcap(?)
  or elm's curses fails to interpret curses padding.
- bounce option generates uucp bang sender address even when elm is
  configured for Internet style addresses.
- in "batch" mode, ^C gives a prompt to hit ^C once more (forever!)
  I have an ugly fix for this.
- 4bsd job control:  hangs on a pager pipe (i.e., when pager is not the
  builtin one)
- "from" doesn't understand metacharacters unless blank lines separate
  nonblank lines in .elmrc
- "batch" mode doesn't save copy in sent folder (doesn't read .elmrc)
- needs to use termcap "ti"/"te" if applicable (to force 1 page screen mode
  on terminal (like Concepts) that have more than 1-page screen memory)
- use "ks", "ke" termcap for (vt100) application cursor/keypad keys
- doesn't always obey 4bsd "new" tty conventions (e.g., when in editing a
  "Subject:", ^W should erase the word left of the cursor but doesn't).
  Probably a case of "raw" mode when "cbreak" would've been better.
- needs a "copy" vs. "move" option instead of the current "save" (move) option
- patched version retains read mail in inbox unless deleted or saved elsewhere
- need shorthand for (read) mailbox (i.e, shorthand for ~/mbox)
- options screen input doesn't interpret "~" notation
- mail-only mode needs to have nl mapping turned on for ~h header editing.
- builtin editor miscounts on ^U (kill line), backspacing 1 too many columns
- builtin editor thinks "(" ")" are shell metachars!
- can't modify an alias in the alias database
- from gets sender wrong even when elm gets it right (saved rn news articles)
- changing folders and then changing back to a nonempty inbox kills elm

and a wishlist item:
- automagic ^L screen refresh on return from 4bsd ^Z (I have an ugly way to
  do this using a global flag that the ^Z signal handler looks at).

Mike Khaw
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