Thus spake Christian Ebert [03/29/07 @ 08.07.15 +0200]: > * Greg Novack on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 22:29:24 -0500: > > Thus spake Derek Martin [03/28/07 @ 21.21.22 -0400]: > >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:57:03PM -0500, Greg Novack wrote: > >>> I wanted new messages in the index view to be colored in bold > >>> yellow. Hence I put 'color index brightyellow default ~N' in my > >>> sourced color file. What I'm about to explain is a way in which > >>> this seems to work incorrectly, while 'color index brightyellow > >>> black ~N' works properly. > > What setting do you have for indicator?
color indicator white red > > >> If it's compiled against curses, then most likely it's a problem with > >> the provided termcap/terminfo settings. If that's the case, there are > >> probably other people having similar problems. Did you search the > >> archives and/or the web for this problem? I do vaguely recall people > >> complaining about terminal-related stuff not working properly on Macs > >> before... > >> > >> mutt -v will tell you how it was compiled: > >> > >> $ mutt -v |egrep 'curses|slang' > >> System: Linux <sanitized> [using slang 10405] > > > > Apparently, it was compiled with ncurses 5.2. As far as I > > know, ncurses was put on my system (OSX10.3) by Fink, and > > according to Fink it is not outdated (though that could just > > mean that no newer version is within Fink's purview). I'll do > > more research on this. > > You can upgrade. Also on 10.3 here: > > $ fink list -t ncurses > i libncurses5 5.4-20041023-9 Full-screen ascii drawing library > p libncurses5-dev [virtual package] > i libncurses5-shlibs 5.4-20041023-9 Shared libraries for > libncurses5 package > i libncursesw5 5.4-20041023-1 Full-screen ascii drawing library > (wchar version) > i libncursesw5-shlibs 5.4-20041023-1 Shared libraries for > libncursesw5 package > i ncurses 5.4-20041023-9 Executable files for ncurses > ncurses-dev 5.3-20031018-502 Development files for ncurses > package > ncurses-shlibs 5.3-20031018-502 Shared libraries for ncurses > package > $ mutt -v | grep curses > ncurses: ncurses 5.4.20041023 (compiled with 5.4) > > c > -- > _B A U S T E L L E N_ lesen! --->> <http://www.blacktrash.org/baustellen.html> Strangely, the mutt -v tells me ncurses 5.2, but the fink list command says ncurses 5.4-x for some things and 5.3-x for others. mutt -v|grep curses yields: System: Darwin 7.9.0 (Power Macintosh) [using ncurses 5.2] [using liniconv 1.9] Also strangely, the issue disappears (as far as I can tell) if I run mutt inside an instance of screen in an xterm. Many thanks, GMN