Re: Mutt tty problems on Mac OS X 10.5.4 and mutt 1.5.18

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tuesday, August 19 at 04:34 PM, quoth felix@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> The only difference was white text on a black background (ugh), so I 
> settled on vt102 for now.  Here is a copy and paste of sample bogus 
> lines.

Does it change if you add the following to your muttrc?

     set ascii_chars=yes

If it does, then we know the problem is your character set (i.e. the 
font). If it doesn't change, then we know the problem is the colors.

Also, just to see if your terminal can do it, try running this:

     echo -e '\033)0\016v\017'

You should get something that looks like an upside-down T if things 
are working properly. If it doesn't... What encodings do you have 
enabled (in the Preferences->Encodings tab) in the Terminal? And what 
font are you using?

> I poked around trying to find /etc/termcapp and /etc/terminfo, no 
> luck.  There are others elsewhere, but Terminal seems to have a very 
> limited subset of terminal types, so I didn't put any more time into 
> them.

For the moment, you don't have to worry about those, just try this:

     export TERM=nsterm
     mutt

The files are actually stored in /usr/share/terminfo/, but that's 
unimportant. If you end up customizing your nsterm-16color file, you 
can simply install it in your home directory (in ~/.terminfo/... you 
have to set the TERMINFO environment variable - read the tic man page 
for details). You shouldn't need to customize it right away, though.

~Kyle
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