On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:18:19PM -0500, Jack Baty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After installing from the port, colors are no longer working properly using > Putty. By not working I mean that it seems the foreground and background > colors are reversed in some cases. Text that was previously green on a > default background is now black on a green background. The default > background does not seem to "show through". In other cases, the text color is > completely different from those defined in my .muttrc. No other changes were > made that I'm aware of, so I started poking around in the makefile. I noticed > that during the install that slang was also installed, which I'd not seen > before. The Makefile says... > > # In general you can choose between using the SLANG port (which is really > # recommended and is now the default) and ncurses (WITH_MUTT_NCURSES). If you > # don't want to use SLANG define WITHOUT_MUTT_SLANG. > > Now, before I go around messing with trying to go back to using ncurses, I'd > like to know if anyone knows if there's a way to fix the color issue while > still using slang, since that seems to now be "recommended". I know nothing > about curses or S-LANG btw, so I'm pretty much flying blind here.
Same problem here, but mutt seems to work fine, when build with "WITHOUT_MUTT_SLANG=YES". Nicolas
