Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 12:59:37 -0400 From: Carl Schmidt <cschmidt@slackerbsd.org> To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/mutt-devel Makefile Message-ID: <20020504165936.GA52508@carbon.slackerbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20020504162040.GB73624@madman.nectar.cc> References: <200205041331.g44DV7B82036@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020504143922.GD66061@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020504074140.A33005@iguana.icir.org> <20020504144756.GE66061@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020504162040.GB73624@madman.nectar.cc>
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On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 11:20:40AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 04:47:56PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: > > -On [20020504 16:45], Luigi Rizzo (rizzo@icir.org) wrote: > > >well the SLANG version when you use colors is broken. > > > > Doesn't seem to be broken on my box. > > > > >The ncurses one is not. > > > > And I am sure there are people who can find problems with the ncurses stuff. > > What I was aiming at was to see if anyone was looking into _why_ it might be > > botched instead of just fixing symptoms [by switching to ncurses again]. > > I find that slang provides a much better experience than ncurses. > Apparently, in order for slang to work, COLORTERM and COLORFGBG must > be set in the environment. I've never noticed this until Udo pointed > it out --- it seems rxvt sets these? > > I'd really like to see this switched back to slang, but I'm afraid I > don't have time before 4.6-RELEASE to sort out the COLOR* issue (why > is it needed, what should set it, can it be defaulted somewhere, ...). In all my experience, only a year, I have never had to do anything to the stock mutt built with libslang in order to make colors work other than adjust the color settings in muttrc. -- Carl Schmidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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