I finally got 256 colors working with mutt and zsh on FreeBSD. Even though both of these programs apparently use terminfo rather than termcap, a termcap entry must exist for your TERM setting, or they both complain.
I had tried that before, but I was missing one key ingredient. The environment variable TERMCAP needed to be set to the path of the termcap file, even if it is /etc/termcap. Apparently, if TERMCAP isn't set, a built-in termcap table is used instead. The terminfo setting I wanted was rxvt-256color, which existed in terminfo but not in termcap. So, I edited /etc/termcap to include a setting for rxvt-256color, export TERMCAP=/etc/termcap, export TERM=rxvt-256color, and all is now right with the world. Of course, I only want to use 256 colors if I'm running under rxvt. So I wrote a shell script to start mutt that tests for that and sets an environment variable MUTT_COLORS to the name of a file that includes my mutt color settings (either .mutt-color256 or .mutt-color8). Then, in .muttrc: source "~/$MUTT_COLORS" -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
