* Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [09-11-07 06:29]: > OK, this is a weird one, and not terribly important although it did > make me go "huh?" for a couple of days. I'm curious as to whether > this is a bug and what causes it.
no > It surely can't be intentional? I think it is. > I'm using mutt-1.5.14-4 as seen on Fedora 7, compiled with ncurses 5.6, > in an xterm (X.Org 6.8.99.903(227)) with default colours (i.e. in normal > operation the xterm displays black text on a white background). 'default" is rather muddied here, you *do* have an /etc/[Mm]uttrc or a ~/.[Mm]uttrc, which changes "default" if you consider that *rc as "default". Remove the "color definitions" from the rc file and you will have "white on black". > "mutt -n -F /dev/null" comes up in white on a black background. Display > an email that doesn't completely fill the screen, and it's still white > on black. Now you have "normal", ie: no rc file influence. > Type ":color normal green black" and now it's green on black. All > fine so far. BUT, "normal green black" per the fine manual attaches the meaning of "normal" to the "object defined (type of information)" [...] > It also turns out that specifying "default" for any one colour switches > the whole of mutt from the default white-on-black into black-on-white, > except where colour settings have been specified. I find that a bit > weird. hopefully explained :^) -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org