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Re: mutt on an xterm with more colors?



On 10/11/2004 at 16:57,
Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible for mutt to use more than 16 colors? I've
> > tried building mutt with both ncurses and slang and have
> > always seen the same message. Anyone out there tried this?
> 
> Probably not.  Both ncurses and slang are limited to 16 colors.  I'm
> thinking about adding (yet another) configure option to allow ncursesw to
> use more colors (long story).  It would probably also involve modifying
> applications such as mutt which have a list of the color names - and
> implicitly a limit on the number of colors.

Hi,

What about this beautiful 256-colors screenshot?!?

  http://ku.wru.umt.edu/mirrors/guckes.net/mutt/pics/dreger.mutt256.png


Reference:

  http://ku.wru.umt.edu/mirrors/guckes.net/mutt/


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