On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 11:58:57 +0100, Jamie Griffin wrote: > remote mutt. However when I do, the display on terminal is not right, > namely that the indicator does not stretch across the whole width of > the screen as it normally does, and only extends enough to highlight > the subject text of the email. It doesn't happen if i use an xterm on > the same Mac and it doesn't happen if I unset color from the indicator > in the muttrc on my FreeBSD server. > > I really don't where to start looking to sort this little problem, and > although it's not a major issues it's very irritating. Interesingly, I > use the same Mac to shh into other UNIX machines and use mutt on those > without this problem, such as Linux and NetBSD.
Was the Mutt on the FreeBSD machine linked with slang, while the Mutt on the other machines using ncurses? (You can tell by looking at the first few lines of the output from "mutt -v".) What is the setting of $TERM just before you start Mutt? If slang is involved, you may find some useful info here: http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Appearance
