On Wed, 5 May 2004, Derek Martin wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:17:48PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > Recent versions of Debian use ncursesw, but Red Hat 9 seems to use > > slang: > > Ok, now I've gone through all the trouble of getting the latest mutt > sources from CVS (because bulding 1.5.6 against slang is broken), > updating my patches to work with the CVS version (and submitting a bug > report to hopefully get them included), copmiling and installing it, > and I re-discovered what my problem is with slang. > > I make heavy use of colorization for visual queues in mutt. I also > strongly prefer my terminals to be a particular shade of dark blue. > Using mutt with Slang makes that impossible. So I also have to set an > environment variable to give Slang default colors that work. But it > has to paint every character cell, which is very gross over a remote > link.
Redhat9 doesn't distribute ncursesw. Why not simply follow the advice and try that? -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
