On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 02:08:08PM -0800, Dale Morris wrote:
> I've just recently installed FreeBSD. I've got most all of my mail
> functioning properly, but I'm having a problem with mutt. When I am in a
> console, the bottom messages don't appear. For example I enter "q" and
> at the bottom of the screen is a black spaced indent and then the
> cursor. No text. If I type "y" mutt quits.

It sounds as if your choice of $TERM is resetting colors to black-on-black.
 
> I'm using mutt 1.25 and Roland Rosenfeld's .muttrc and setup files
> icewm-gnome
> .xinitrc
> .tcsh
> 
> 
> 
> Oh, if I'm in X using xterm, there's no color in mutt but I can
> backspace to delete text. If I'm in rxvt I have color in mutt but can't
> backspace/delete.

same problem (the terminfo entry tells the application what to expect for
backspace - kbs - and delete - kdch1).

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