On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:37:48PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > You could probably get mutt to start with TERM=screen-bce is termcap has > an appropriate entry for it. I found that even though mutt with slang > uses terminfo, it queries termcap on startup.
screen(1) does set TERMCAP in the environment... There is a termcap entry for screen, but not for screen-bce. If I add the screen-bce entry I still get the same error, as I do if I set TERM=screen. Aha! I must unset TERMCAP to make Mutt/S-Lang happy. Nico --