On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:03:05AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > > The color settings in your .muttrc allow you to choose from the > palette provided by your terminal program. That is, for example, > you can choose the terminal's red, the terminal's blue or the > terminal's brightred, but if you want a different shade of red > you'll have to change the color(s) used by the terminal and that is > typically done in ~/.Xdefaults, if you're using an X terminal.
I use it mostly from console, in VT100 simulation. I have already taken care of that, with John's help (see previous message). > I don't know what you mean by mutt's "editor/pager". Mutt uses: > > o a line editor for editing the command line, which is built-in; > o a pager, which can be built-in or external; > o a line editor for editing messages in mailx mode, which is > built-in; > o a text editor for editing messages in any other mode, which is > external. > > Other than when in mailx mode, and I doubt you're using that, mutt > has no internal text editor. It always uses an external editor for > editing messages and defaults to using $EDITOR, $VISUAL or vi. So > your choices are nano or some other external editor. If you're > happy using nano, keep using it. > > I'd recommend using mutt's internal pager. It has all the features > you need for reading e-mail and you can execute mutt commands while > in the pager, which you can't do from an external pager. Thank you for clarifying that. So I guess I'll stay with nano for now. The question now is how to make nano produce the same colors (in console) as mutt now does. > HTH, > Gary HTH, Franz (what's "HTH?")
