James Carlson wrote: > > Mutt with s-lang adds flexibility when defining colors; namely, > > the keyword "default" may be used as a foreground or background > > argument to the "color" subcommand. Useful for users who want > > mutt to retain the background color/pixmap of their terminal when > > it is run. > > At the cost of having a completely independent and possibly > incorrect terminal information database to maintain ... right?
No. Slang uses the standard terminfo database. > ... > > > > Please make at least fetchmail and procmail either Committed or > > > (at worst) Uncommitted. They're useless as Volatile, and given > > > that many of us have relied on these utilities for a decade or > > > more without seeing any incompatible changes, dubbing them > > > "Volatile" merely because the author doesn't draw an SMI > > > paycheck seems wrong. > > > > That argument probably can extend to mutt as well. It's command > > line has evolved quite stably in its lifetime. > > Probably so ... but I can see mutt being useful even without a > stable user interface on it, because it's normally driven directly > by humans who can (presumably) read the documentation when things > don't turn out as expected. Fetchmail and procmail are normally > used inside scripts and buried in the bowels of someone's personal > system configuration, and thus breakage is most unwelcome, no matter > the source. Yes, agreed. Though I do occasionally use mutt in scripts (to take advantage of auto-archiving, attachments, etc.). But I'm probably not typical in this case. Steve -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 185 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/attachments/20080222/ac96cd6e/attachment.bin>
