Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 21:35:50 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" <danfe@ssc.nsu.ru> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No color in xterm Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001172133350.6550-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <85sdg0$1h3o$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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On 16 Jan 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > John Indra <m4v3r1ck@bigfoot.com> 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. :-) ) > And, under Linux, midnight commander will display colors even with TERM=vt100, that's no the case udner FreeBSD port of it. Does anyone know for sure that linux mc does not check for terminal type, and fBSD's midc does? Just don't want to dig into sources.... WBR, ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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