Re: Revisiting Mutt, Debian, Ncurses, Eterm .....

2001-05-01 Thread Thomas Dickey

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:23:09PM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
 I'm not using any colors, though...

mutt prepares for using color, even if you don't ask.
(read color.c, e.g., ci_start_color).

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Re: Revisiting Mutt, Debian, Ncurses, Eterm .....

2001-04-30 Thread Jason Helfman

I'm not using any colors, though...

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:56:52PM -0400, Thomas Dickey muttered:
| On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:23:16AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
|  I have Debian Sid.
|  
|  Eterm
|  Ncurses
|  Mutt
|  
|  I have no colors for my Eterm and it should be Transparent with the
|  option flags I am using. If I start a Eterm up and type mutt, it jumps
|  to a black index, however when editing, it is transparent. And that
|  would make sense, being in VI at that point.
|  
|  Any ideas why I would be experiencing this?
| 
| It doesn't show up in the compile options, but mutt should be configured to
| call 'use_default_colors()' - you can verify that with 'nm' on mutt.  If it's
| configured properly, then the color scheme in .muttrc is the place to look (if
| it uses default in the background rather than black).
| 
| -- 
| Thomas E. Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| http://dickey.his.com
| ftp://dickey.his.com

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Re: Revisiting Mutt, Debian, Ncurses, Eterm .....

2001-04-30 Thread Thomas E. Dickey

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Jason Helfman wrote:

 I'm not using any colors, though...

white, black and default are colors (if the terminal description says it
can do colors, mutt is probably starting colors).


 On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:56:52PM -0400, Thomas Dickey muttered:
 | On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:23:16AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
 |  I have Debian Sid.
 | 
 |  Eterm
 |  Ncurses
 |  Mutt
 | 
 |  I have no colors for my Eterm and it should be Transparent with the
 |  option flags I am using. If I start a Eterm up and type mutt, it jumps
 |  to a black index, however when editing, it is transparent. And that
 |  would make sense, being in VI at that point.
 | 
 |  Any ideas why I would be experiencing this?
 |
 | It doesn't show up in the compile options, but mutt should be configured to
 | call 'use_default_colors()' - you can verify that with 'nm' on mutt.  If it's
 | configured properly, then the color scheme in .muttrc is the place to look (if
 | it uses default in the background rather than black).
 |
 | --
 | Thomas E. Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 | http://dickey.his.com
 | ftp://dickey.his.com



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Re: Revisiting Mutt, Debian, Ncurses, Eterm .....

2001-04-30 Thread Jason Helfman

But how??? I am not defining any colors in mutt.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 06:36:47AM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey muttered:
| On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Jason Helfman wrote:
| 
|  I'm not using any colors, though...
| 
| white, black and default are colors (if the terminal description says it
| can do colors, mutt is probably starting colors).
| 
| 
|  On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:56:52PM -0400, Thomas Dickey muttered:
|  | On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:23:16AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
|  |  I have Debian Sid.
|  | 
|  |  Eterm
|  |  Ncurses
|  |  Mutt
|  | 
|  |  I have no colors for my Eterm and it should be Transparent with the
|  |  option flags I am using. If I start a Eterm up and type mutt, it jumps
|  |  to a black index, however when editing, it is transparent. And that
|  |  would make sense, being in VI at that point.
|  | 
|  |  Any ideas why I would be experiencing this?
|  |
|  | It doesn't show up in the compile options, but mutt should be configured to
|  | call 'use_default_colors()' - you can verify that with 'nm' on mutt.  If it's
|  | configured properly, then the color scheme in .muttrc is the place to look (if
|  | it uses default in the background rather than black).
|  |
|  | --
|  | Thomas E. Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|  | http://dickey.his.com
|  | ftp://dickey.his.com
| 
| 
| 
| -- 
| T.E.Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| http://dickey.his.com
| ftp://dickey.his.com
| 

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Re: Revisiting Mutt, Debian, Ncurses, Eterm .....

2001-04-29 Thread Thomas Dickey

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:23:16AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
 I have Debian Sid.
 
 Eterm
 Ncurses
 Mutt
 
 I have no colors for my Eterm and it should be Transparent with the
 option flags I am using. If I start a Eterm up and type mutt, it jumps
 to a black index, however when editing, it is transparent. And that
 would make sense, being in VI at that point.
 
 Any ideas why I would be experiencing this?

It doesn't show up in the compile options, but mutt should be configured to
call 'use_default_colors()' - you can verify that with 'nm' on mutt.  If it's
configured properly, then the color scheme in .muttrc is the place to look (if
it uses default in the background rather than black).

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Re: Revisiting Mutt, Debian, Ncurses, Eterm .....

2001-04-29 Thread Robert Sweet

.Eterm/themes/mutt
or check the system wide files. SuSE has mutt theme for
eterm, maybe debian does too.

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