* On Thu, 16 May 2002, Sven Guckes wrote: > mutt behaves the way you expect it to, > that is the follwoing lines show up in > "blue on default": > > > This is in "quoted" color > > This is in "quoted" color again > > the follwoing lines however > are not shown in the colors > you wrote: > > | This is in "quoted1" color > : This is in "quoted2" color > } This is in "quoted" color > # This is in "quoted1" color
Did anyone using a similar $quote_regexp see strange coloring on my original post? (I am seeing it on the above re-quoted lines as well, so it's not just the first quote character that affects it.) > I'm sure there must be something else > in your setup which changes this. > > > It seems when the _leading_ quote prefix changes, > > the color sequence is not reset, but continues > > where it left off, and going back to the first > > leading quote prefix ("> " above), resets it again. > > any hooks involved? check your setup. > or try again with *no* setup at all! > > mutt -F /dev/null > > does it work as expected now? I started mutt as above and then manually entered the "color quotedx" commands by hand at the colon prompt -- still the same behavior. > if not - did you compile with > ncurses or slang? (see "mutt -v") Is one preferred over the other? Here is the mutt -v output: Mutt 1.3.28i (2002-03-13) Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: Linux 2.4.18 (i686) [using ncurses 5.1] Compile options: -DOMAIN -DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK -USE_POP -USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_SASL +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET ++HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID -HAVE_GETADDRINFO ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell" SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/mail" PKGDATADIR="/usr/local/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc" EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" -MIXMASTER To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility. > > Vim, for example, seems to display this correctly, > > although it uses different quote prefixes by default. > > comparing apples with oranges? ;-) Probably, just thought that might eliminate some possible causes. Maybe not. -- John