On Mar 18, Thomas E. Dickey [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > > > I've compiled mutt-1.3.28i in the default configuration on RedHat
> > > > Linux 7.2 (i386) with all updates.  If I run it in xterm (from
> > > > XFree86-4.1.0) or in rxvt-2.7.6, it shows a blank screen.  I can
> > > > quit by pressing Ctrl-C and Enter.  The same executable runs on the
> > > > Linux console just fine.
...
> > Unsetting COLORFGBG fixes the problem.
> 
> that's a bug that I fixed in September.  The problem was that when I coded
> the $COLORFGBG logic (which btw is under-documented in rxvt - you have to
> read the C code to see it), it didn't occur to me that its format might
> change.  It happens that the format depends on whether xpm is linked in -
> 2 or 3 fields.  The background color is the last field.

Indeed; Pavel, please see http://bugs.guug.de/db/10/1011.html for this bug
and the resolution, and ignore the mails from Cindy.

> $COLORFGBG is marked as an experimental feature.  I've gotten 2-3 reports
> of this particular problem - but only months after I stumbled on it
> myself.  Apparently one or more of the rpm's last year turned that feature
> on, though it was in the code almost a year.

Well, I think it was more the other bug where it would get turned on if
other development features like hard-tabs were turned on.  It was
apparently a combination of these two.

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