From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 16 6:31:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0578814A14 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 06:31:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id PAA29538 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:31:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA50305 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:27:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: No color in xterm Date: 16 Jan 2000 13:27:44 +0100 Message-ID: <85sdg0$1h3o$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <20000116173750.A2282@bigfoot.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Indra wrote: > I have Mutt 1.0i installed on my FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, compiled against > S-Lang 1.3.10. In consoles, Mutt shows color just fine, but when I run > Mutt on an xterm, it doesn't show color at all. Presumably the program checks the termcap entry and doesn't find any indication of color support there. Try TERM=xterm-color. > when I use gnuls --color=auto, xterm seems to render the color, That blows out ANSI color control sequences without any regard whatsoever for the actual terminal type. xterm indeed renders those. (A different terminal might self-destruct. :-) ) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message