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Re: mutt on an xterm with more colors?



+----[ Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx> (10.Nov.2004 19:06):
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| 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.
| 
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Thanks for the clarification. 

Regarding the addition of more colors to ncurses, I think
it's a great idea, though I'm not sure how many people are
actually asking for it. I'm a terminal fan ... except for
web browsers and other things dealing with graphics, I try
to do all my text-related stuff in xterm. Thus, I like it
when I can do syntax coloring in vim with additional colors.
And I would also like to see that happen in mutt :)

Fernan

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