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List:       mutt-dev
Subject:    Re: source $TERM ?
From:       "T.E.Dickey" <dickey () clark ! net>
Date:       2000-04-24 18:23:09
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> On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 09:21:58PM +0200, Steffan Hoeke wrote: 
>  
> > I know, but I copied a $TERM for a xterm from that site, but when I 
> > started mutt in an xterm I got NO color, so I wanted to check if I copied 
> > the file correcty. 
> [...] 
>  
> That might well be due to the setting of $TERM itself. I had problems with 
> that with an ncurses-linked mutt, where ncurses wouldn't recognise my xterms 
> or rxvts as colour-capable (with TERM set to "xterm"). For the time being, 
> I'm using a wrapper script which sets TERM to "xterm-color" before starting 
> mutt itself - that gave me the colours. I know it's not the best of all 
> solutions, but it does the job... :-} 

if "xterm-color" doesn't declare 'bce', it's not correct for either XFree86
xterm or rxvt.

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Thomas E. Dickey
dickey@clark.net
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey

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