Re: adventures in coloring lines of the index view
* Greg Novack on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 22:29:24 -0500:
> Thus spake Derek Martin [03/28/07 @ 21.21.22 -0400]:
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:57:03PM -0500, Greg Novack wrote:
>>> I wanted new messages in the index view to be colored in bold
>>> yellow. Hence I put 'color index brightyellow default ~N' in my
>>> sourced color file. What I'm about to explain is a way in which
>>> this seems to work incorrectly, while 'color index brightyellow
>>> black ~N' works properly.
What setting do you have for indicator?
>> If it's compiled against curses, then most likely it's a problem with
>> the provided termcap/terminfo settings. If that's the case, there are
>> probably other people having similar problems. Did you search the
>> archives and/or the web for this problem? I do vaguely recall people
>> complaining about terminal-related stuff not working properly on Macs
>> before...
>>
>> mutt -v will tell you how it was compiled:
>>
>> $ mutt -v |egrep 'curses|slang'
>> System: Linux <sanitized> [using slang 10405]
>
> Apparently, it was compiled with ncurses 5.2. As far as I
> know, ncurses was put on my system (OSX10.3) by Fink, and
> according to Fink it is not outdated (though that could just
> mean that no newer version is within Fink's purview). I'll do
> more research on this.
You can upgrade. Also on 10.3 here:
$ fink list -t ncurses
i libncurses5 5.4-20041023-9 Full-screen ascii drawing library
p libncurses5-dev [virtual package]
i libncurses5-shlibs 5.4-20041023-9 Shared libraries for
libncurses5 package
i libncursesw5 5.4-20041023-1 Full-screen ascii drawing library
(wchar version)
i libncursesw5-shlibs 5.4-20041023-1 Shared libraries for
libncursesw5 package
i ncurses 5.4-20041023-9 Executable files for ncurses
ncurses-dev 5.3-20031018-502 Development files for ncurses
package
ncurses-shlibs 5.3-20031018-502 Shared libraries for ncurses
package
$ mutt -v | grep curses
ncurses: ncurses 5.4.20041023 (compiled with 5.4)
c
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