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Date:      Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:36:46 +0100
From:      Fredrick Nilsson <fredrick.nilsson@framfab.se>
To:        "'stacey@vickiandstacey.com'" <stacey@vickiandstacey.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Upgraded mutt, now all colours gone
Message-ID:  <CB1D80DAEB179D4C9A73C648F3C2B5570277BC@sestoex02.framfab.se>

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well, it could have been something that is changed in mutt that's depending
on the TERM type?

.f

-----Original Message-----
From: Stacey Roberts [mailto:stacey@vickiandstacey.com]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 14:35
To: Fredrick Nilsson
Cc: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: RE: Upgraded mutt, now all colours gone


Hello,

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 13:29, Fredrick Nilsson wrote:
> oh.. sorry. there was a type-o there.. i meant that you should change your
> TERM like this:
> 
> export TERM=xterm-color

:-) No worries.., 

Did as suggested, and the colours are now back (thanks much for this).
Why my terminal variable settings would have for mutt would have changed
beats me.

Any thoughts on this?

Regards,

Stacey
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fredrick Nilsson 
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 14:27
> To: 'stacey@vickiandstacey.com'
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: RE: Upgraded mutt, now all colours gone
> 
> 
> ok, too bad.. worked fine for me..
> 
> br
> fredrick nilsson
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stacey Roberts [mailto:stacey@vickiandstacey.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 14:21
> To: Fredrick Nilsson
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: RE: Upgraded mutt, now all colours gone
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 13:17, Fredrick Nilsson wrote:
> > try witch xterm-color instead.
> > 
> I get nothing returned from that:
> $ which xterm-color
> $
> 
> I can't honestly say if this result would have been different before, as
> I've not explicitly set this value before.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stacey
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stacey Roberts [mailto:stacey@vickiandstacey.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 14:17
> > To: Fredrick Nilsson
> > Cc: FreeBSD Questions
> > Subject: RE: Upgraded mutt, now all colours gone
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 13:11, Fredrick Nilsson wrote:
> > > what's your termtype?
> > 
> > Gosh, that was quick! Its xterm:
> > $ echo $TERM
> > xterm
> > $
> > 
> > I neglected to give the following info:
> > $ uname -a
> > FreeBSD <snipped> 4.8-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Feb 28
> > 23:38:18 GMT 2003     stacey@<snipped>:/usr/src/sys/compile/TIGER  i386
> > $
> > 
> > I'm running Gnome2 with a transparent terminal bg. But this shouldn't
> > matter, as the mutt colour scheme worked before I upgraded just now. Do
> > let me know if there's anymore info I can provide, or if I've missed
> > something.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Stacey
> > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stacey Roberts [mailto:stacey@vickiandstacey.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 14:08
> > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > > Subject: Upgraded mutt, now all colours gone
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > >      Sorry for asking what might be a simple issue, but I can't seem
to
> > > track this down.
> > > 
> > > I've portupgraded mutt to mutt-1.4.1 just now, and I noticed that all
my
> > > colour settings have disappeared (not working), where this was fine
> before
> > > the upgrade. Specifically, none of the text of messages appear with
the
> > > colours that they previously had with the old version of mutt. Now
> > > everything in mutt is the same green (text) on the termincal
background.
> > > 
> > > Here is the relevant bit of my .muttrc:
> > > # Color definitions
> > > #
> > >  
> > > 
> > > #color normal white default
> > > color hdrdefault red default
> > > color quoted brightblue default
> > > color signature red default
> > > color indicator brightyellow red
> > > color error brightred default
> > > color status yellow blue
> > > color tree magenta default      # the thread tree in the index menu
> > > color tilde magenta default
> > > color message brightcyan default
> > > color markers brightcyan default
> > > color attachment brightmagenta default
> > > color search default green      # how to hilite search patterns in the
> > pager
> > > color bold red default  # highlight all bold text in message
> > >  
> > > 
> > > color header brightred default ^(From|Subject):
> > > color body magenta default "(ftp|http)://[^ ]+" # point out URLs
> > > color body magenta default [-a-z_0-9.]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+    # e-mail
> addresses
> > > color underline brightgreen default
> > >  
> > > 
> > > # attributes when using a mono terminal
> > > #mono header underline ^(From|Subject):
> > > mono quoted bold
> > > 
> > > This is the sample.muttrc from the previous mutt I had (from ports)
that
> I
> > > used as a template for my own .muttrc file. The only changes I recall
> > making
> > > was the addition of address aliases, but the colour functionality was
> > > working fine.
> > > 
> > > Has anyone else seen this?
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Stacey
-- 
Stacey Roberts
B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science

Web: www.vickiandstacey.com


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