On Thursday, 04 February 1999, at 04:25:11 (+0000),
David Allen wrote:
> The problem is that while it will read my .muttrc and will complain about
> problems with it, it WONT use the color scheme I told it to. I'm using
> an rxvt and on the terminal, and in neither case does it say anything
>
> Any suggestions? The syntax of my .muttrc file is fine because it doesn't
> complain about it at all unless I introduce an error on purpose to see
> if it's checking it. :)
Modern color terminals are plagued by many legacy problems. The most
famous is, of course, the Backspace vs. Delete issue. (Ugh.) Another
is the TERM=xterm vs. TERM=xterm-color issue. Sometimes xterm is
actually xterm-color and xterm-color is rather hosed. Sometimes xterm
is xterm and xterm-color is xterm with color support added (as it
should be). And then there's TERM=linux.
If you're running Linux, try setting TERM=linux. This will work a lot
of the time with curses/ncurses implementations. If you're running
an SLang version of mutt, make sure COLORTERM is set and exported. If
you're not on Linux, try the terminfo/termcap file that comes with
rxvt (and other color-enabled term emulators).
Michael
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Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX System Administrator, 3Com
http://www.tcserv.com/ Co-author, Eterm Terminal Emulator
