Thomas Roessler proclaimed on mutt-users that:
> On 2000-10-05 00:22:40 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > /usr/bin/mutt
> > /usr/bin/cmutt
> > /usr/bin/xmutt
> What on earth are cmutt and xmutt supposed to be?
Shell scripts which wrap around mutt, to set the appropriate term / xterm.
Both by Thomas Ribbrock - emgaron <at> gmx.net - they seem to be in several RPM
builds I've seen (mine is the 1.25i with cfp from mutt.linuxatwork.at)
I've attached the scripts here, fwiw.
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#!/bin/sh
# cmutt - script to call mutt after setting TERM to an appropriate value
# Thomas Ribbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
# published under GPL
# set TERM so that an ncurses linked mutt will use colours
# If COLORS has a defined value, we assume that the appropriate TERM
# value was set before => don't touch (thanks to Thomas E. Dickey for this!)
# If it isn't set or is set to -1, no colours are defined and we try to
# set a different TERM value.
#
COLORS=`tput colors 2>/dev/null`
if [ -z "$COLORS" -o "$COLORS" = "-1" ] ; then
if [ -n "$COLORTERM" ]; then
# COLORTERM is set => assume rxvt
TERM=rxvt
else
# we guess some kind of xterm
TEST=`tput -Txterm-xfree86 colors 2>/dev/null`
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# xterm-xfree86 is known here
TERM=xterm-xfree86
else
# not known - we try xterm-color
# NOTE: xterm-color might have the wrong bce capabilities!!
# The linux console, rxvt and the XFree86 xterm have bce, while
# xterm-color doesn't, so this is really last resort.
# (thanks again to Thomas E. Dickey!)
TERM=xterm-color
fi
fi
export TERM
fi
exec mutt "$@"
#!/bin/sh
#
# xmutt - script to start mutt in a terminal window under X
# Thomas Ribbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, April 2000
#
# published under GPL
#
# try rxvt first
which rxvt > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
rxvt -tn rxvt -T Mutt -e mutt
else
# try xterm next
which xterm > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# with xterm, the correct setting for TERM is not so clear,
# so we leave it to the cmutt script and hope for the best...
xterm -T Mutt -e cmutt
fi
fi
