* 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

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