For some reason, most color combinations work fine - but if I try to
higlight anything with the same background and foreground color, it does
strange things. For example,
color subject brightblue blue
gives me a bright white on black text (just boldfaced, not blue
anywhere.) This stands out against the rest of my message (which has a
blue background.) This occurs for brightgreen/green, etc. The version
of mutt on the system is linked with S-lang - although I don't see how
this problem could be caused by S-lang vs. ncurses.
Also, in the system-wide mailcap for mutt, two entries are:
application/octet-stream; cat "%s"; copiousoutput
text/*; cat "%s"; copiousoutput
When autoview runs these commands, it gives me an error message along
the lines of:
Running cat "'/tmp/foo'"
cat: cannot open '/tmp/foo'
Should mutt be quoting the parameter it passes? The metamail docs (and
the mutt docs) show "%s" quoted as being OK - and it works fine if I
pipe the message in question through metamail (using this mailcap.)
Although I can complain to the system admins, I don't know what is the
correct behavior as far the relevant RFC's are concerned.
--
-Ben Carter
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from
the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"
