I've been working on a system to make boring threads less conspicuous. It's not finished, and when it is I'll do a proper writeup, but what I currently do is
• make sure I have 256 colour terminals working (correct $TERM variable, uxterm, correct arguments to tmux, etc.) • I use the default grey text colour on a black background for normal text. This is "color8" in the normal 16-colour terminal palette, which happens to coincide with "color254" in the 256 colour palette. FWIW, colours 232 through to 255 are a greyscale ramp. • I've chosen a lower-contrast colour to mark people who I do not enjoy reading: color237. When I want to add someone to that collection, I make a note of either their email address or (better) a uniquely-identifying portion of their message-ids. The latter is less reliable since so many people use gmail or gmane, but if you wanted to do this to me for example, "redmars.org" will catch all my recent and future emails. • I then add a line like the following to one of my mutt config files > folder-hook debian-user 'color index color237 default "~h redmars.org" ^ works for people you can identify using message-ids, and works for replies to their messages too (since that gets propagated into other people's "references:" headers). Sadly it won't catch replies to such people if you are trying to match on their email address. For a few limited such cases, > folder-hook debian-user 'color index color237 default "~B Dowland" ^ Can do the trick (if you have a unique enough portion of someone's name, as it's often included in an attribution line above quotes, or signatures). However matching against the body is more computationally expensive if your list folder is quite large. Then I can skip over the lower-contrast regions of my list view with relative ease. I also make a habit of deleting entire threads if they bore me. My aim is to use 16-bit terminal colours (currently only reliably supported in Konsole) and a larger range of greyscales, to use a separate crm114 configuration to score mailing list mail on an "interestingness" basis (I use crm114 for spam filtering but do not want to re-use those buckets for two purposes) and to auto-colour based on the corresponding "spam" score. A writeup when it's ready. -- Jonathan Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131022131054.gb28...@bryant.redmars.org
