On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:31:17AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [09-11-07 06:29]: > > 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 Sorry if it wasn't clear - I was talking about the defaults for xterm (in the absence of mutt) in the above sentence. > > "mutt -n -F /dev/null" > Now you have "normal", ie: no rc file influence. That's the idea, yes. > > 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)" Here, "normal" is a technical term which means "any text not covered by the other color definitions". I'm well aware of what the command does, but it's not strictly relevant to the colour-switching behaviour. > > 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 :^) Sorry, I must have missed it. :-( imc
