I don't know if this solve your problem or you already did this, but you need to set the xterm in order to have colors for manuals or vim. Read from FAQ "How do I get color man pages on XTerm?".
Luis On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Bernd 'Siggy' Brentrup <b...@xlab.net> wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm absolutely new to openbsd so please bear with me if it's not > the right place to ask my question. The box I installed 4.5 will > be running headless so I'm logged in remotely on a color xterm. > > I rsynced mutt configuration from my Ubuntu box because it's also > running mutt 1.5.18, most things work out as expected except for > lack of colors, missing threading and convenient confvars > xterm_set_titles and xterm_title that I use to display status > information in the xterm title. > > I'll investigate the first 2 quirks later, as for ther xterm stuff > my question is did you leave these out on purpose, they are missing > in your muttrc(5) too (if so why) or should I check Ubuntu's resp. > Debian's source code to see if they patched mutt. > > Thanks > Siggy > -- > O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org+ > |36 days until|Open Source in Northern Germany: www.free-it.org| > |www.Ubucon.de| tech contact: bsb-at-free-dash-it-dot-de| > +-------> ceterum censeo javascriptum esse restrictam <--------+