Carl Cotner [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:17:55PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote:
> > Eugene Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there anyway to get different colors in the index for "From" and
> > > > "Subject" ?
> > >
> > > color header magenta default ^(Subject|To|Date|From):
> >
> > That colorizes the headers in the pager, but I think he was asking about
> > the index display. Such as, can the "From" address and the "Subject"
> > portions of the display, be put in different colors? The answer is NO.
> >
> > This has been lovingly termed "the rainbow effect," as far as features
> > that users think that they want. I believe that, long ago, someone did
> > implement this in an old version of Mutt, and he reported that it looked
> > awful. So it was never folded into Mutt.
>
> This is my number one desired feature for mutt. In an old MUA of my own
> design, the actual subject part of the "Subject:" line was highlighted
> instead of the whole line. Like so:
>
> Subject: this is the subject
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> this is highlighted
This is yet another concept from the ones discussed above. Just so we keep
track of what's being talked about, there have been 3 color issues
mentioned so far:
1) Q: Can Mutt color different parts of the same line different colors in the
message index?
A: No.
2) Q: Can Mutt color different headers different colors in the pager?
A: Yes.
and now we have:
3) Q: Can Mutt color different parts of the same header line different
colors in the pager?
A: No.
(1) and (3) are related since they both deal with coloring a single line
multiple colors, but they apply to different contexts and aren't the same
thing. (3) could be done with regexps, as noted, but (1) couldn't
really... it would have to be specified per index field.
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