Hi,

On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 13:56 +0100, Holger M. Fuessler wrote:

> Now I'd like to use mutt with a terminal-based editor (like
> joe). Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work:
> While joe works fine in a terminal (like rxvt), it doesn't when
> launched by mutt. The rows and columns are wrecked and the background
> is bright white. I already updated ncurses and tried a bunch of

Try

export JOETERM=linux; mutt

that fixed the wrecked joe menus for me. I don't know if it's
possible to change the background color of an xterm/rxvt on the
fly. But you can set the color when starting it. Or switch to
jed, it uses a lightgrey background.

Ciao,
        Stefan

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