[gentoo-dev] slang v.s. ncurses

[Georgi Georgiev]

This is not supposed to start a flame-fest, but I need some advice.

As of mutt-1.5.10-r1, the slang use flag is ignored and ncurses is used
instead. After checking out bugs #96603 #102558 #57416 (mentioned in the
ChangeLog as the reasoning behind the no-slang decision) I got some idea
as to why -- ncurses provides more features, slang was only supposed to
be a minimalist replacement for ncurses, etc.

However, I am used to the control-s shortcut to send spam to a folder,
which spamassassin learns from.

^S          macro                  s=spam-learn\r

This magic key sequence works fine with my slang-linked mutt, but it
does not with a ncurses-linked mutt. I am aware what Control-S is
supposed to do historically. I did some googling around and found out
that people were having similar problems with emacs where ^s is used for
searching. Unfortunately, all the advice they got was "use a different
shortcut mapping". Well, I *will* do that, eventually, but is there no
way to get Control-S working with ncurses? I don't care about the
historical reasons for ^s, and I did have it working until recently. I
feel cheated by the switch to ncurses in this respect.

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