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Terminal Madness?

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I run alpine, built from source, on my Jessie:

$ uname -a
Linux debian.localdomain 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 
3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u4 (2015-09-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Alpine lately seems to have trouble "remembering" changes made 
by me to its config, e.g. adding new folders for additional 
remote imap hosts. That is, I make a change, such as adding a 
new folder, but if for some reason I have to exit alpine, when I 
re-launch it the changes are not there.

My fix was to delete .pinerc and launch alpine from "scratch," 
rebuilding the config I need "by hand." NOW, here you may well 
ask,

"But Bob! Surely this is a question for the alpine list, not a 
debian list, n'est-ce pas?"

But wait! Now I see my new hand-cranked config is not behaving; 
changes made are not working. I close alpine, and as I edit in 
jed the .pinerc lines that are misbehaving I notice they have 
been altered ("corrupted"). Then (my hand to God I) AS I STARE 
AT THE LINES IN JED CHARACTERS ARE CHANGING "ON THEIR OWN" 
WITHOUT ME TOUCHING A KEY.

I am in an xterm window running in icewm, and its config looks 
like this:

xterm -fg white -bg black -geometry x26 -fa 'Deja vu Sans Bold' 
-fs 24

(I've since changed to Luxi Mono just as a test of sorts.)

===> Has anyone EVA seen text file characters in an editor just 
change before their eyes without any intervention from the 
operator?



-- 
Bob Bernstein

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Terminal Madness? Bob Bernstein <bob@fanatick.org> - 2015-09-28 22:20 +0200
  Re: Terminal Madness? "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2015-09-28 22:40 +0200
    Re: Terminal Madness? Mike McGinn <mikemcginn@mcginnweb.net> - 2015-09-28 22:50 +0200
      Re: Terminal Madness? Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-09-28 23:10 +0200
  Re: Terminal Madness? Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 02:40 +0200
    Re: Terminal Madness? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2015-09-29 09:20 +0200
  Re: Terminal Madness? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-09-29 08:50 +0200
  Re: Terminal Madness? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2015-09-29 09:30 +0200
    Re: Terminal Madness? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-09-29 10:50 +0200
      Re: Terminal Madness? Bob Bernstein <bob@fanatick.org> - 2015-09-29 21:40 +0200

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