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From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
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Subject: Re: MUTT and color
To: nik@blueberry.co.uk (Nik Clayton)
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 11:13:11 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199610051219.NAA14869@guava.blueberry.co.uk> from "Nik Clayton" at Oct 5, 96 01:19:40 pm
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 |Is anyone using Mutt (a curses based mail reader) on FreeBSD, in color_xterm
 |or rxvt, and getting it to display colour?
 |
...
 |I've posted this query to the Mutt mailing list, and the consensus was that
 |I needed a termcap entry with colour support. Fair enough, but the suggested
 |solutions ('setenv TERM xterm-color', when $TERM is already 'xterm') don't
 |work.

xterm-color Works for me.  Do a mutt -v and verify that the line:

#define HAVE_COLOR

is printed in the output.  If not, that's probably what's wrong.  Rebuild
with this option set.

Randall Hopper
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