Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 15:39:31 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ncurses Message-ID: <20100605193931.GA29539@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20100605171334.GA60226@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> References: <20100604150234.GA56195@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100604235256.GA14240@saltmine.radix.net> <20100605171334.GA60226@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
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On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 10:13:34AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
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> Thanks for your response, but I solved the problem by specifying that
> mutt should use slang instead of ncurses. That works better in a couple
> of ways, so I'll go with that.
>
> I do, however, still have one small problem. I can't seem to get mutt to
> see that my urxvt has 256 colors enabled. infocmp shows "colors#256" for
> rxvt-256color, but if I do 'export TERM=rxvt-256color' then zsh complains
> "can't find terminal definition for rxvt-256color" (though it lets me set
> it anyway). However, mutt still complains if I try to use any color
> above 8. With TERM set to "rxvt" infocmp shows "colors#8" and tput
> colors shows "145". I'm confused. Obviously, not everyone is on the
> same page here.
There is more than one potential problem - here're a few:
ncurses' default configuration doesn't support 256 colors ("only" 16,
which was more than the standard 15 years ago). It supports 256 colors
as a binary-incompatible extension of ncursesw, which could be provided
in a port. With/without the extension, infocmp would show the 256.
zsh may be looking in the termcap interface, which iirc on FreeBSD is
using a separate database.
FreeBSD may still be using a tput that's not based on ncurses.
"145" is puzzling here, too.
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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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