Stuff that looks like standard termcap/terminfo/ncurses issues, except that Mutt is built with Slang. In an xterm, the various inverted lines (ie, the line that lists the help options, the status line, the current message) have the color inversion end after the last text character on the line. (ie, there are three help options, with display inverted, but the (blank) rest of the line is normal). Fairly minor, but distracting, and possibly indicative of similar issues elsewhere. Switching the TERM variable to vt102 does make the problem go away, but is obviously not desirable for other reasons.
I don't see this here; running in an xterm, I see a normal display.
aha, I see it now, when I'm not using colors (i.e., default muttrc). odd.
it *appears* that the terminfo database says xterm supports bce. Our various terminal emulators don't seem to do it right, or slang does it wrong.
... except, the terminal emulators *should* support bce.
In redhat 7.2 witj Mutt 1.2.5.1i With TERM=xterm or on the console with TERM=linux. All color options commented out of Muttrc so it just works monochrome. I see the top line: Q:Quit d:Del u:Undel s:Save m:Mail r:Reply g:Group ?:Help This is only highlighted until the end of "Help". If TERM=vt100 then the highlight reaches to the end of the line. Rgds Stephen
If this still occurs, it's almost certainly a slang issue, not a mutt issue.
this should be fixed with mutt being built against the wide char version of slang