Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 12:55:14 -0400 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: Benedikt Schmidt <ry102@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Cc: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/mutt-devel Makefile Message-ID: <20020504165514.737B13E3E@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from Benedikt Schmidt <ry102@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> of "Sat, 04 May 2002 17:16:02 %2B0200." <20020504151602.1905.qmail@wn4-marvin.wn4.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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--==_Exmh_674696998P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > 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). Well, that's all broken in FreeBSD anyway. According to the author of the XFree86 xterm. AFAIK (haven't updated in a while) the xterm we ship via XFree86 has been a color terminal for years now. The Way It Used To Be (TM) worked great for me, and also worked fine with mono Xterms displayed from older *nix systems (e.g. Slowaris and the like). However, the color customizations discussed in the XTerm web page: http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#my_xdefaults haven't worked for some time in FreeBSD, for me anyway. (They used to, but stopped after a commit sometime in 2001, IIRC). I run so few color-based text apps that it's not worth the hassle to sort it out (although it is somewhat irritating that we appear to be Doing It Wrong, after it used to work). Feh. I believe I've seen at least one PR on the subject, although I can't find it now. Ahh. He's updated his web page since I last read it to explicitly say that FreeBSD is doing this incorrectly, and why: http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_terminfo I can't help wondering if this is what is biting you guys? Regards, AS --==_Exmh_674696998P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE81BJyPHh895bDXeQRAk7YAKCuLT2+CTWR5jyvZZl/BlFYaBSF1wCcDIJ/ 1J+/3ZHtPPjGMhLuLQh+uWA= =zU4d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_674696998P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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