Dale Morris wrote: [might be a good idea to use a subject line] > 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.
did you build mutt from ports, or from source? if you built from the ports, you might specify the option to build with ncurses instead of slang. do you mean in the actual console, or in a terminal window? i don't have this problem in either case in a terminal window (usually Eterm) or on the console on my FreeBSD 4.4 machines. Also, my main mail machine is a linux box but I read it from FreeBSD and i don't have this problem here also. if you mean a terminal rather than the actual console, probably you have the wrong $TERM setting. if you're in the console, is $TERM set to cons25? > I'm using mutt 1.25 and Roland Rosenfeld's .muttrc and setup files you might also include mutt -v output, and let us know what $TERM is set to anywhere you have the problem (echo $TERM in bourne derived shells; not sure about csh derived shells, but env | grep TERM will do it). > 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. i usually use xterm-color in FreeBSD even though you really shouldn't ever use 'xterm-color' since color 'ls' only works (AFAIK) when $TERM is set to this. on linux, i use xterm-xfree86, or sometimes just xterm. experiment with different TERM settings and terminal programs and see what works for you. personally i find Eterm nicer looking (after you mess with the default colors and stuff) than xterm or rxvt, although it can be a bit of a memory hog. w
