On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:42:02AM +0000, John Levon wrote:
>
> So I set up $display_filter and allow_ansi to view syntax-highlighted messages
>through
> mutt's pager, and it works, but my ANSI color settings are setting the background to
>black
> for the coloured lines, instead of the terminal default.
>
> I've heard tell the same problem can happen with mutt internal "color" command.
>
> Any ideas on what the problem is and how to fix it ? I am using xterm-color
> on a BSD box ssh'd from Linux. The $display_filter is attached.
"TERM=xterm-color" will always do this (except for some hardcoded crap I've
seen), since it's telling the screen library that the terminal cannot do
default colors.
> I've searched archives etc. to no avail
it's an faq...
The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation
There's an faq at
http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html
ftp://dickey.his.com/xterm
The current version of ncurses is 5.2 (20001021)
There's an faq at
http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html
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