Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 17:16:02 +0200 From: Benedikt Schmidt <ry102@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> To: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/mutt-devel Makefile Message-ID: <20020504151602.1905.qmail@wn4-marvin.wn4.uni-karlsruhe.de> In-Reply-To: <20020504143614.GA50548@voi.aagh.net> (Thomas Hurst's message of "Sat, 4 May 2002 15:36:14 %2B0100") References: <200205041331.g44DV7B82036@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020504134821.GA73078@madman.nectar.cc> <20020504135223.GA7869@totem.fix.no> <20020504140225.GB73078@madman.nectar.cc> <20020504143614.GA50548@voi.aagh.net>
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Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> writes: > * Jacques A. Vidrine (nectar@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > >> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 03:52:23PM +0200, Anders Nordby wrote: >>> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 08:48:21AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: >>>>> Use ncurses instead of slang by default, because of slang "out of a box" >>>>> issues. > [..] > >> Hmpf, my experience is completely the opposite. I use over 83 `color' >> settings with mutt using slang. Before the port defaulted to slang, I >> would manually specify WITH_SLANG because the ncurses version did not >> do colors well. (on -CURRENT and -STABLE) > > You would seem to be in the minority. Better the minority set > WITH_SLANG than the majority have to edit their environments or specify > USE_NCURSES :) > >> Did the maintainer or committer actually test to see if Luigi's claim >> is accurate? I would like to see this resolved before 4.6-RELEASE so >> that we have a working mutt on the CDs. > > For what it's worth, when the port switched over to slang, the mutt > lists received a good deal more "wtf are all my colours wrong?" mails. > > Certainly I can confirm that ncurses seems to get by with a default > environment, where as slang wants COLORFGBG setting and will throw a > tantrum (by screwing up your colours) if it's not there. The problem is related to the use of "default" in mutt color settings. If you specify the color instead of default, slang shows the right color without setting _any_ additional environment vars. If you set COLORFGBG=color the "default" color setting works like in the ncurses Version, COLORTERM is only needed to force colors if your terminal has no color support according to the termcap entry (e.g. TERM=xterm). -- Regards, Benedikt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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