On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: > When I was first messing around with Mutt I had similar > troubles when trying to use a regular old xterm. It > seems like I found that setting the environment variable > TERM to color_xterm instead of just xterm made it work. > Calling xterm with the -tn color_xterm flag has a similar > effect, I think.
color_xterm is similar to xterm-color, and both are incorrect for XFree86 xterm and rxvt (ditto Eterm and aterm, konsole and gnome-terminal). to see this, use infocmp to compare their terminfo entries. > > HTH > > --Daniel > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 06:02:17PM +0000, John J Kearney wrote: > > please can sombody tell me how to enable colors in mutt > > > > i have a color xterm and vim has colors in it > > > > what must i do for mutt ot work here also > > > > TIA JJK > -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
