Re: tin: article stubs one line short

John McCue <jmccue@fuzzball.jmcunx.com> wrote:

Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> wrote:

When I post a new message in Tin 2.6.3, after I enter the subject
and press Enter, Tin generates the "stub" of a new article and opens
it in my editor (nvi) with `+7', which complains:
 
   -c option, 1: illegal address: only 6 lines in the file
 
And indeed, there are only six lines in the generated file:

>
Very odd.  What is VISUAL set to ?

vi, invoking nvi on this system.  I have tried vim as well,
but the pre-generated stub article was not affected.

Do you have an empty ~/.signature File ?  Maybe that is why.
Try creating a ~/.signature with 1 'real' line and see what
happens.  Or maybe delete file ~/.signature

The error is observed with either:

  a. sigfile=
  b. sigfile=--none (tin's convention for no sig)

in my tinrc. With a path to an non-empty text file,
the behavior is correct. With an empty signature file,
there is no error, but the article stub ends with a
signature delimiter -- Tin is obeying its rc file to
the letter.

The problem is in whatever component is responsible for
generating the stub artile, for it /fails/ to end it with
two empty lines with `sigfile=--none' .

Also check ~/.tin/tinrc and see if there is simething odd in
that.

Duh...