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Re: OT plain text missing from web mail (was: Installer Can Not Find Root"

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  Re: OT plain text missing from web mail (was: Installer Can Not Find  Root" Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-11-23 05:10 +0100
    Wild cursor, was Re: OT plain text missing from web mail David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-11-24 16:10 +0100
      Re: Wild cursor, was Re: OT plain text missing from web mail Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-29 02:40 +0100

#189217 — Re: OT plain text missing from web mail (was: Installer Can Not Find Root"

Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-22 19:09 (UTC-0500):
...
> 4. This laptop I'm borrowing is notorious for having a hyper-sensitive touch
> pad. You can be typing along in the spot you have chosen for input and suddenly
> it gets a wild hair and relocates the cursor to somewhere else. As a hunt and
> peck typist, I've been victimized many times by this and had to undo and start
> over. The new insertion point is unpredictable AFAICT.

> 5. Anything in the clipboard can be pasted, preferences for no HTML not
> withstanding. If there is an html fragment in the clipboard

> 6. This list proscribes top posting and often I place replies within or at the
> end, then hit send (webmail has a button at the bottom as well as the top)
> without looking at the beginning text. The html-like garbage is at the beginning.

> Currently, my theory is that somehow(tm) due to 4, *IT JUST DID IT. I AM NOT
> KIDDING*
...
This one is/was 10.5KB, 100% HTML:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mailer: EarthLink Zoo Mail 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
...
<html><head><style type=3D"text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></he=
ad><body><div style=3D"font-size: 13px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: cou=
rier new, monospace;"><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-ser=
if;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style>-----Origina=
l Message-----<br>...
-- 
"Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you
get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation)

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!

Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/

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#189268 — Wild cursor, was Re: OT plain text missing from web mail

> Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-22 19:09 (UTC-0500):
> ...
> > 4. This laptop I'm borrowing is notorious for having a hyper-sensitive touch
> > pad. You can be typing along in the spot you have chosen for input and suddenly
> > it gets a wild hair and relocates the cursor to somewhere else. As a hunt and
> > peck typist, I've been victimized many times by this and had to undo and start
> > over. The new insertion point is unpredictable AFAICT.

Perhaps you need to investigate syndaemon. This disables the Synaptics
touchpad whenever a key is struck. The disabled period is configurable,
so if I type
$ syndaemon -i 1
into any old Xterm, the cursor will be dead for one second after any
key is struck. You can set it up in the background with   -d   and
put it in .xsession or equivalent.

The only downside is if you're adept at two-handed work with cursor
and keystrokes, but bear in mind that any attached mouse is unaffected.

Cheers,
David.

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#189387 — Re: Wild cursor, was Re: OT plain text missing from web mail

On 11/24/2017 10:08 AM, David Wright wrote:
>> Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-22 19:09 (UTC-0500):
>> ...
>>> 4. This laptop I'm borrowing is notorious for having a hyper-sensitive touch
>>> pad. You can be typing along in the spot you have chosen for input and suddenly
>>> it gets a wild hair and relocates the cursor to somewhere else. As a hunt and
>>> peck typist, I've been victimized many times by this and had to undo and start
>>> over. The new insertion point is unpredictable AFAICT.
> Perhaps you need to investigate syndaemon. This disables the Synaptics
> touchpad whenever a key is struck. The disabled period is configurable,
> so if I type
> $ syndaemon -i 1
> into any old Xterm, the cursor will be dead for one second after any
> key is struck. You can set it up in the background with   -d   and
> put it in .xsession or equivalent.
>
> The only downside is if you're adept at two-handed work with cursor
> and keystrokes, but bear in mind that any attached mouse is unaffected.
Thanks for the reference, however I've stopped trying to use that 
ThinkPad and am writing this from Thunderbird on jessie. Found more than 
one place to set touchpad sensitivity so I changed both of them to low 
or the equivalent. So far, the ThinkPad owner has experienced no wild 
excursions of the text cursor. I, as the cursor curser, want to avoid 
any spurious html, so I'm staying on jessie. :-)

  - Dan

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