On Wed, 5 May 2004, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:17:48PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> > Recent versions of Debian use ncursesw, but Red Hat 9 seems to use
> > slang:
>
> Ok, now I've gone through all the trouble of getting the latest mutt
> sources from CVS (because bulding 1.5.6 against slang is broken),
> updating my patches to work with the CVS version (and submitting a bug
> report to hopefully get them included), copmiling and installing it,
> and I re-discovered what my problem is with slang.
>
> I make heavy use of colorization for visual queues in mutt. I also
> strongly prefer my terminals to be a particular shade of dark blue.
> Using mutt with Slang makes that impossible. So I also have to set an
> environment variable to give Slang default colors that work. But it
> has to paint every character cell, which is very gross over a remote
> link.
Redhat9 doesn't distribute ncursesw. Why not simply follow the advice
and try that?
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