Re: MONOCHROME mutt/mc, COLOR ls/elvis ...?
Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:25:10AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
>> Will Trillich wrote:
>> > hmm. i must have some odd video settings. i used your .muttrc
>> > settings verbatim [thanks!], and i do see bold items here and
>> > there, but still no color. (mc has the same trouble -- monochrome
>> > and bold but no color -- although elvis shows colors just fine.)
>> >
>> > i'm telnetting in with TERM setting:
>> > % printenv TERM
>> > vt220
>> >
>> I wonder if it's your telnet client. I've found few for Win32 that
>> support color well; TeraTerm Pro does pretty well. What the situation
>> might be on the Mac, I've no idea.
> i don't think so. (could be wrong, but...)
> for shits&giggles, i do
> setenv TERM linux
> and then i see white on blue in mc, but the character set is screwy;
> mutt then shows color as well, but escape sequences interfere with
> user input [???] after restoring to
> setenv TERM vt220
Maybe add color strings to vt220 terminfo using tic and infocmp
but I don't know because:
What are you doing?
Where are you telneting from - for example linux xwindows xterm?
What are you telneting to - for example a shell account running linux?
or a nearby machine?
What program are you using to telnet?
What TERM enviornmental variable - where?
Thanks
> i'm pretty sure that my telnet client does color pretty well.
> ls --color ==> rich color set
> elvis ==> plenty-o-colors
> tcsh prompt ==> color hiliting just fine
> mc ==> monochrome w/reverse-video and bold
> mutt ==> monochrome w/reverse-video and bold
> i bet there's some environment hook that elvis and ls both find/use,
> that mc and mutt don't look for (or vice-versa). or just one variable
> setting that i'm missing in both monochrome cases...
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