On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:15:51PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:02:11PM -0700, Steven E. Harris wrote:
> > When I use mutt on my Potato system without any color settings (that
> > is, no ~/.muttrc), the default colors are just about right. The
> > documentation on how to change the colors is adequate. When I run mutt
> > on my shell account at my ISP, there are no colors by default (that
> > is, with no ~/.muttrc). If I add some colors to my ~/.muttrc, the
> > colors do display properly, so it's not just a matter of my terminal
> > settings not supporting color.
> >
> > Where are these default colors defined in the Potato mutt package? I
> > looked for some default muttrc file on my system, but couldn't find
> > one. Why might the mutt installed at my ISP not use any colors by
> > default, while my local one does? Is there a setting to "turn on
> > color" without actually specifying overrides of the defaults?
>
> this won't answer your question :) but here's the color-relevant
> portion from my ~/.muttrc --
>
> # COLORS
> # thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange, I don't have anything like that in my .mutrc, and the colors work
from console, xterm, and remote ssh.
