Re: mutt on console: cursor on far right

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2014-07-28 at 10:09 BST, Thomas Mueller wrote:

> > > In FreeBSD (mutt built from FreeBSD ports) console or xterm, whole
> > > line in messages listing is highlighted; this was also the case in
> > > Linux Slackware.
> 
> > That's what it is supposed to do. And typically it turns the cursor off,
> > too, so you only get the hightlighted line.
> > (In xterms I have my cursor in red so I can easily see where it is)
> 
> -Olaf.
> 
> ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  
>
> But in NetBSD, mutt built from pkgsrc shows the cursor at the far
> right, and the line is not highlighted.
> 
> That makes it difficult to see exactly which message is on that
> line, especially with DRMKMS and 250 * 66 console.

No problems with pkgsrc mutt for me:

  http://us-east.manta.joyent.com/jperkin/public/screenshots/mutt-term.png

mutt-devel, ncursesw from pkgsrc, OSX, TERM=xterm16-color, iTerm2 with
solarized theme, mutt colours here:

  https://github.com/jperkin/dotfiles/blob/master/etc/mutt/colours.m4

Cheers,

-- 
Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com