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Re: Mutt & 256 colors re-re-re-visited



On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 01:05:11AM EST, Mun Johl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First of all, my apologies for bringing up this topic again.
> 
> I am trying to get Mutt working with 256 colors on my Solaris 8 system.
> I've tried both rxvt and mrxvt terminal emulators.  I'm currently
> compiling with ncurses (mainly because compile attempts with slang
> fail).
> 
> Both terminal emulators report 256 color support when I execute
> 'tput colors'.  However, when I try to set a color to something like
> color100, mutt complains thusly:
> 
> 100: color not supported by term
> 
> I read through some old email threads regarding 256 color support.  Even
> though I found some good tips and information, I still can't seem to get
> Mutt working with 256 colors.
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated.

$ TERM=term-256color mutt

IOW when mutt see stuff like color100 it uses the "active" terminfo
entry to verify that your terminal supports 256 colors. 

Is that it..?

> P.S. Along the same lines... Any thoughts of taking the gvim approach
>      and integrating a graphic terminal into mutt?

No, thanks.