On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > 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.
indeed (I haven't seen any discussion that indicates there was any technical reason for this - a shame, since that tends to increase my own incoming bug reports from people who don't know how to set their environment). > > 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. not really (barring bugs in mutt, there's no intrinsic difference between what's doable with ncurses or slang). There were some trivial bugs reported for color support, but my experience with sending patches _to_ mutt-dev was that they were ignored (not even rejected), so there's little reason to pursue that. > Same problem here, but mutt seems to work fine, when build with > "WITHOUT_MUTT_SLANG=YES". > > Nicolas > -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
