In the last episode (Mar 21), Stacey Roberts said:
> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 13:34, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:08:29PM +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > > I've portupgraded mutt to mutt-1.4.1 just now, and I noticed that
> > > all my colour settings have disappeared (not working), where this
> > > was fine before the upgrade. Specifically, none of the text of
> > > messages appear with the colours that they previously had with
> > > the old version of mutt. Now everything in mutt is the same green
> > > (text) on the termincal background.
> >
> > Try adding
> > WITH_MUTT_SLANG=yes
> > to /etc/make.conf and then recompiling.
> >
> > Actually, add WITH_SLANG=yes as well, as I think it's different for
> > the mail/mutt port.
>
> What do those variables (for the mutt port) do? And is there
> something not right in the way the mutt port is handled by
> portupgrade or something?
No; the reason this "fixes" your problem is that slang ignores the
contents of the terminal description and assumes that if TERM=xterm,
you have color. Ncurses will only send escape sequences allowed by
your TERM variable, and 'xterm' has no color capability. The real
solution is to either put
*TermName: xterm-color
in your .Xresources file, or edit /usr/share/misc/termcap and make
xterm a copy of xterm-color.
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