On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:16:55PM +0100, Lee J. Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Philip Wittamore wrote:
> 
> > Hmm..  
> > I compiled mutt with slang, and I discovered that contrary to
> > ncurses, the headers now had background colour to the end of
> > the line, but "brightblack" no longer worked.  (tried with
> > xterm, rxvt, aterm and konsole)

ROFL (slang, cited as a standard)
 
> Yep, same here.  Considering the number of terminals I've used
> and the fact that they all support sixteen colours with other
> apps, I find it difficult to believe it's not Mutt at fault.  No
> amount of googling turns up solutions, nor posting to the list.
> Maybe it's only a minority of Mutt users who want more than
> eight colours.

8 colors are standard (the majority of those 16-color applications are
assuming that bold colors are bright - which is not a valid assumption
in many cases).

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