On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 05:12:31AM -0600, David Champion wrote:
> On 1999.11.06, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>       "Wilhelm Wienemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > i tell mutt to use color "default", but mutt tell me
> > > "default: no such color", why?
> > > 
> > > for example "color error brightred default"
> > 
> > Therefore you need 'ncurses' version 4.2 (the recent version is 5.0)
> > or you have to compile mutt against 'slang'.
> > Since version 4.2 'ncurses' is working with a 'default' color option.
> 
> It's more complicated than this.  I've tried all six of the following
> combinations.  The 1.0pre4/slang configurations accept "default" as a
> color, and the 1.0 releases do not.  COLORFGBG is set under all.
> 
>       1.0pre4 ncurses-5.0     error
>       1.0pre4 slang-1.2.2     ok
>       1.0pre4 slang-1.3.9     ok
>       1.0     ncurses-5.0     error
>       1.0     slang-1.2.2     error
>       1.0     slang-1.3.9     error

agree, i got ncurses-5.0 and slang-1.3.9 in my system, but default
color didn't work.
i saw a message when ./configure, maybe is the key problem...

"checking for use_default_colors... (cached) no"

have any idea?

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