> Leopard comes with the necessary stuff for several variants of nsterm,
> but not nsterm-16color. You can install your own ncurses (e.g. via
> MacPorts), which I usually do, and that *will* contain the necessary
> nsterm-16color stuff, but system-provided programs won't use it.
> *THAT* is w
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On Tuesday, May 4 at 06:37 PM, quoth Jamie Griffin:
> Yeah, I read a few old posts in the archives where you had explained
> the benefits of setting up Terminal.app in that way but I think the
> OP(s) problems at the time were mostly related to lo
> Ahhh. Personally, I find "nsterm-16color" is usually more accurate for
> Apple's Terminal. It stands for "NextStep Terminal" (or should I say
> "NeXTstep"), which is where Apple's Terminal came from. The only
> downside is that nsterm-16color isn't included with some old versions
> of ncurses
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On Tuesday, May 4 at 04:49 PM, quoth Jamie Griffin:
> Cool. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
:)
>> What terminal program are you using on your Mac? Apple's Terminal
>> or an honest-to-god xterm or something else?
>
> I'm just using Terminal.a
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Cool. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
> What terminal program are you using on your Mac? Apple's Terminal or
> an honest-to-god xterm or something else?
I'm just using Terminal.app.
What confused me slightly was that this wasn't happening on another NetBSD
machine i use, which
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On Tuesday, May 4 at 03:59 PM, quoth Jamie Griffin:
> There are quite a few entries in /etc/termcap already for xterm-*,
> including xterm-color.
Good!
> I tried setting TERM=xterm-color in ~.cshrc (obviously using the
> correct environment sett
Hi Kyle, thanks for your help.
> The TERM is definitely the issue. That setting controls how mutt (or,
> more accurately, ncurses) knows what codes to use to change the colors
> and otherwise draw things on your terminal (such as the status bar).
>
> You don't need to install X11 on your FreeB
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On Tuesday, May 4 at 03:13 PM, quoth Jamie Griffin:
> The $TERM environment variable on my Mac is set to xterm-color; at
> present, I do not have X11 installed on my FreeBSD machine so it's
> just the default: cons25. (Not sure if that would make
Hi Nathan
> 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".)
mutt on my FreeBSD machine is definitely compiled with ncurses; ncurses
5.6.20080503 to be
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 th
I use FreeBSD for my email server and have mutt installed on it. I often ssh
into the mail server from Mac OS X (Leopard) and use the 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 normal
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