Hi,
On 09.02.01, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> > It's possible to get the colors working with the IBM curses, but you
> > will went into problems with the background color, because there is no
> > default-color (or whatever it's called) using IBM curses. And if you
> > want something else then the black or white background (or other base
> > colors on a terminal) you'll have a bad background color behavior.
>
> yes - that's true. But I recommended first that he try it with IBM
> curses since it's less work.
Ok, yes. But in the end one might consider to use ncurses due to the
background support. It depends if you need it, sure.
> (For ncurses, he should be careful to
> configure it disabling overwrite).
You're right, one should be careful about that. I've installed the
ncurses with an prefix (as well as mutt) to keep it away from the
standard installation ...
> > You better try it with ncurses. There you can get the background color
> > working correctly. You'll need a correct terminfo entry for your
> > terminal which might not be within ncurses from scratch (I remember I
> > had problems with dtterm, but you can find a correct dtterm terminfo
> > entry in the web or mail to me directly -- I can send it to you) and
> > then you should be able to run mutt with all the nice colors ...
>
> The dtterm terminfo in ncurses should be correct (I think). Though I've
> run into a bug with dtterm not related to color (one with scrolling,
> which I think I mention on my xterm faq).
You may right, it can be that I had the problem with older versions of
(n)curses (may be some older version which was installed here long
time ago -- I can't remember, I only know that I had a problem with a
missing dtterm terminfo).
> I use the dtterm terminfo
> occasionally on Solaris, usually with default colors (though I don't
> find the background makes it easy to read, so I use xterm if I'm
> doing much editing).
I think, this discussion is mainly about working with dark or light
background -- isn't it? You have to adjust your color configuration to
make it easy to read on different backgrounds ...
André
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