[Alpine-info] 1000messages-and-Scrolling?

[Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2024, Chime Hart via Alpine-info wrote:


> Well, I have a backlog of messages in an inbox through Fastmail. Funny 

> as soon as it hits 1000 every 7seconds the final screen from message 

> 886-on will scroll or at least in my screen-reader, it continues 

> announcing this group of messages, which I have sorted by arrival on the 

> fly. Alot of times I sit in an index at the last message waiting for 

> incoming items. Thanks in advance for your analysis.


This sounds like Alpine is redrawing the screen. What happens is that 
numbers smaller than 1000 require three columns to print, while numbers 
bigger or equal to 1000 require four spaces. This means that when the 
number of messages reaches 1000, you will need 4 spaces for all messages, 
regardless of number, so that they appear aligned in the screen. 
Internally, Alpine is deleting its cache of index lines and recomputing it.

The same will happen when you get to 10000 messages.

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Eduardo