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Date:      Sat, 4 May 2002 15:36:14 +0100
From:      Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/mutt-devel Makefile
Message-ID:  <20020504143614.GA50548@voi.aagh.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020504140225.GB73078@madman.nectar.cc>
References:  <200205041331.g44DV7B82036@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020504134821.GA73078@madman.nectar.cc> <20020504135223.GA7869@totem.fix.no> <20020504140225.GB73078@madman.nectar.cc>

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* Jacques A. Vidrine (nectar@FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 03:52:23PM +0200, Anders Nordby wrote:
> > On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 08:48:21AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> > > >   Use ncurses instead of slang by default, because of slang "out of a box"
> > > >   issues.
[..]

> Hmpf, my experience is completely the opposite.  I use over 83 `color'
> settings with mutt using slang.  Before the port defaulted to slang, I
> would manually specify WITH_SLANG because the ncurses version did not
> do colors well. (on -CURRENT and -STABLE)

You would seem to be in the minority.  Better the minority set
WITH_SLANG than the majority have to edit their environments or specify
USE_NCURSES :)

> Did the maintainer or committer actually test to see if Luigi's claim
> is accurate?  I would like to see this resolved before 4.6-RELEASE so
> that we have a working mutt on the CDs.

For what it's worth, when the port switched over to slang, the mutt
lists received a good deal more "wtf are all my colours wrong?" mails.

Certainly I can confirm that ncurses seems to get by with a default
environment, where as slang wants COLORFGBG setting and will throw a
tantrum (by screwing up your colours) if it's not there.

-- 
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst  -  freaky@aagh.net  -  http://www.aagh.net/
-
Accuracy, n.:
	The vice of being right

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