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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mutt-1.6.0-1
- From: Ismail Donmez <ismail at i10z dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:01:03 +0300
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mutt-1.6.0-1
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On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Ismail Donmez <ismail@i10z.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 06/04/2016 11:32, Ismail Donmez wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A counter example:
>>>>
>>>> http://chbrauner.blogspot.de/2014/02/mutt-compiled-against-ncurses-and.html
>>>>
>>>> try and let me know
>>>
>>>
>>> I am not using a mutt colorscheme but a mintty one which mutt fails to
>>> render. I will, however, try the change but a quote from the page
>>>
>>> "The solution is to replace a lot of the very specific color
>>> specifications of the colorscheme by the value default. "
>>>
>>> This proves the point that mutt is unable to use 256-color specifications.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ismail
>>
>>
>> ncurse can handle 256 color.
>> I doubt that mutt is different from other programs.
>>
>>
>> which TERM variable are you using ?
>>
>> $ TERM="xterm"
>> $ tput colors
>> 8
>>
>> $ TERM="xterm-256color"
>> $ tput colors
>> 256
>
> My TERM is also xterm-256color but however that won't matter because
> looking at mutt-1.6.0/color.c
>
> I see:
>
> #ifdef USE_SLANG_CURSES
> static char *get_color_name (char *dest, size_t destlen, int val)
> {
> static const char * const missing[3] = {"brown", "lightgray", "default"};
> int i;
> [...]
> #endif
>
> and similar functions. So looks like "some" color functionality
> depends on slang.
So, can we enable slang dependency now?
Thanks,
Ismail
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