On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:53:27AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > *default* is the definition of mutt's color table, not xterm's, and > mutt prevails.
I don't know where mutt gets its ideas of default colours from, and I don't mind what the defaults are, but the point is this: if you start it up without defining any of the colours, and then say something like "color markers red default" then the *whole* of mutt (not just the markers) instantly flips from white-on-black to black-on-white. If you don't use the word "default" then it doesn't flip. The question may be: if "default" means black-on-white in mutt, and the xterm was also black-on-white before I started mutt, why does mutt start up in white-on-black? imc
