Andy Saxena wrote: > > Hmmm... so what would the solution be in this case? Should I always use > a dark background? I guess if I had to choose between a dark and a light > background, I'd be more inclined to use a dark background. How would I > tell mutt that the background will always be dark?
mutt doesn't have a set of dark or light colors at all - you should just set colors appropriately in your .muttrc. you could also define different sets of colors and source them from different .muttrcs... then alias 'dmutt' to 'mutt -F .mutt/muttrc-dark' or something like that. for vim, you could put "set bg=dark" in your .vimrc (or have it set this option when the filename is called mutt-... -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >