> when I use Mutt on a direct console I like color settings. When I dial in
> from work the color settings don't work very well even though I DO set
> the terminal type correctly.
>
> Is there a way I can have mutt apply different color settings depending
> on terminal type, or may be depending on which tty I'm on , or some other
> way to handle this issue?
I am using:
~/.muttrc:
# Color settings
source ${HOME}/.mutt/`echo $TERM`
Then, there are two files with different settings in .mutt, colors and mono.
$TERM is just a link to the approproiate file:
$ ls -l ~/.mutt
-rw-r--r-- 1 lhecking users 1064 Aug 16 1999 colors
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lhecking users 6 May 8 22:15 dtterm -> colors
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lhecking users 6 May 8 22:15 emacs -> colors
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lhecking users 6 May 8 22:15 linux -> colors
-rw-r--r-- 1 lhecking users 22 Sep 11 1997 mono
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lhecking users 4 May 8 22:15 screen -> mono
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lhecking users 4 May 8 22:15 sun -> mono
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lhecking users 4 May 8 22:15 sun-cmd -> mono
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lhecking users 4 May 8 22:15 vt100 -> mono
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lhecking users 4 May 8 22:15 vt220 -> mono
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lhecking users 6 May 8 22:15 xterm -> colors
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lhecking users 6 May 8 22:15 xterm-color -> colors