On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 07:41:34PM +0200, ilf wrote:
> Yet, Mutt only lets me specify color0-color7. Everything above gives an
> error, also hex values and RGB specifications.
You can use colorN where N is up the maximum number of colors your
terminal supports. For example, I just tested this with rxvt-unicode:
color indicator color63 color34
> Why is that so? Why does Mutt not allow hex (or other) values for
> colors?
Most terminal emulators don't to support changing the color values via
the ncurses library. Instead, you configure your terminal colors in
your terminal emulator and then specify colorN to select them in Mutt.
Mutt *could* in theory support hex colors for terminals that do support
changing colors (like rxvt-unicode), but not directly in the color
commands. You'd basically have to reproduce the configuration that
rxvt-unicode gives you in Mutt to assign hex codes to specific colorN
values. That seems like a lot of work for no real benefit.
me
