On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:42:02AM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> 
> So I set up $display_filter and allow_ansi to view syntax-highlighted messages 
>through
> mutt's pager, and it works, but my ANSI color settings are setting the background to 
>black
> for the coloured lines, instead of the terminal default.
>  
> I've heard tell the same problem can happen with mutt internal "color" command.
>  
> Any ideas on what the problem is and how to fix it ?  I am using xterm-color
> on a BSD box ssh'd from Linux.  The $display_filter is attached.

"TERM=xterm-color" will always do this (except for some hardcoded crap I've
seen), since it's telling the screen library that the terminal cannot do
default colors.
  
> I've searched archives etc. to no avail
it's an faq...

The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation
There's an faq at
        http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html
        ftp://dickey.his.com/xterm

The current version of ncurses is 5.2 (20001021)
There's an faq at
        http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html

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