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From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: xterm, color_xterm, mutt
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Christoph Kukulies:
 |Hhmm, when xterm replaces color_xterm, so why doesn't mutt 
 |(the elm-lookalike-but-fancier-colors-mail-reader)  show in
 |colors any longer. I tried with TERM=xterm-color and TERM=xterm
 |and the world is two colored :-(
 |
 |Trying my backup copy of color_xterm brings back colors - just has this
 |utmp nastiness.
 |
 |Has anyone tried it out? Would the new termcap.src help (donated by
 |Xinside)?

I've been running mutt for some months now in color with no problems.

I dumped xterm-color (and xtermc on Solaris) as they neither one worked
flawlessly for me.  Maybe this is slang; maybe the termcap entry.  I don't
know.

But try this -- works for me:

       1) Compile mutt with slang (not ncurses)
       2) TERM=xterm
       3) COLORTERM=y

The last var forces color without having to have a color termcap entry.
Works well.  Great mailer with a great OS.

Randall