Hardware cursor and console colours resetting when starting mutt

[Cameron Simpson]

On 30Sep2018 23:40, David Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net> wrote:
>Perhaps I could add terminfo entry in screenrc especially for mutt
>that removes the init and reset strings. Not sure if it's possible on
>an app-by-app basis though.

You can certainly make customised terminfo entries; I keep a few around myself.  
As with termcap, you can make entries based on other entries, so it would be 
trivial to make a special one like your console terminfo but with modified init 
strings.

You have 2 routes for per-app use of these: give your terminfo a special name 
and set $TERM, or change the value of $TERMINFO to find your entry in 
preference to the system default.

"man 5 terminfo" has useful information in the "Fetching Compiled Descriptions" 
section.

You could invoke mutt via a wrapper which modified the terminfo envars if it 
know it was running on the Linux console. (Not so easy from within screen of 
course.) Or of course just routinely use a particular terminfo entry inside 
screen, since it is entriely divorced from the physical terminal screen is 
using as a display.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>