"Bruce J.A. Nourish" <bjan+netbsd-users@bjan.net> writes:

> I'd like to know the Right Thing to set my TERM variable to. Here's 
> what I've tried:
>
> vt100: no colors, pageup/pagedown & function keys don't work.
> ansi: color okay, but cursor is not addressed properly in vi.
> vt220: no color, function keys borked, pageup/pagedown work.
> wsvt25: broken colors, pageup/pagedown work, function keys don't work.
>
> When I say "broken colors" for wsvt, I mean that colors with a black
> background were displayed fine, but those with a non-black background
> were simply shown as bright-white on black.

Try 'TERM=xterm; mutt'. At least with emacs it does fine.

Martin