On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:24:50PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: | On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:02:12PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: | > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon scribbled... | > > I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and | > > exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- | > > culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other pairings that | > > are pre-configured options. How / Where can I configure background/foreground | > > pairings that work for my eyes? | > Add this to your ~/.muttrc (or ~/.mutt/muttrc) and play with the settings. | > #color normal white default | > color hdrdefault red default # Things like to, date, etc. | > color quoted brightblue default # ?? | > color signature red default | > color indicator red white | > color error brightred default | > color status brightwhite blue | > color tree magenta default # the thread tree in the index menu | > color tilde magenta default | > color message brightcyan default | > color markers brightcyan default | > color attachment brightmagenta default | > color search default green # how to hilite search patterns in the pager | > | > color header brightred default ^(From|Subject): | > color body magenta default "(ftp|http)://[^ ]+" # point out URLs | > color body magenta default [EMAIL PROTECTED] # e-mail addresses | > color underline brightgreen default | | Thanks. | | But I don't see "bright" as part of a color name on the man page. | What are the color names that work? Is there a way to display an exhaustive | list of foreground/background combinations? Or are there two many colors for | that to be realistic?
http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html#color foreground and background can be one of the following: * white * black * green * magenta * blue * cyan * yellow * red * default * colorx foreground can optionally be prefixed with the keyword bright to make the foreground color boldfaced (e.g., brightred). My preference is to use vim for the pager. Specifically 'view' (defaults to readonly) with the 'less.vim' script to make the keybindings behave like less (until you press 'v', then you can copy-n-paste like usual in vim). set pager='view -X -c "so $HOME/util/script/less.vim"' (less.vim comes from the upstream vim distribution; it might be in the vim-extra package or something) I have syntax highlighting enabled in vim with the following parameters : highlight Normal guibg=black guifg=grey90 set background=dark " makes syntax highlighing lighter syntax on My terminal (console or gnome-terminal) has a black background. gvim does too (with the above settings). HTH, -D -- "GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions." --Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)
