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.
$ infocmp $(echo $TERM) | g 256
colors#256, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#32767,
.. does your terminfo specify 256 colors?
> P.S. Along the same lines... Any thoughts of taking the gvim approach
> and integrating a graphic terminal into mutt?
Hopefully .. someone would fork the code?
Thanks,
cga