<<< Date Index >>>     <<< Thread Index >>>

Re: Mutt inserting escape characters



On 20-09-2004, at 14h 03'50", David Dombrowsky wrote about "Mutt inserting 
escape characters"
> Could someone tell me why mutt seems to insert escape 
> characters into a message I have set to use a display
> filter?  For example, if my message contains a line
> starting with a pipe character (|), it comes through
> as the following
> 
> <ESC>[0m| Hello world
> 
> This breaks the scrips which check things like GPG
> signitures, even though the raw message checks just fine.
> 
> I've looked through the docs and can't find any way to
> turn this thing off.  The only solution is to use sed in
> my display filter and get rid of those escapes.  
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

Switch off all color|video attribute definitions, or convince mutt you
are on a terminal that doesn't know colors. 


Ionel