On 2014-08-12, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 11Aug2014 19:36, Erik Christiansen wrote: > >On 11.08.14 09:33, Cameron Simpson wrote: > >>I colour deleted messages in dark blue (and my terminal has a black > >>background) so that at least makes such accidents visually obvious. > > > >That looks useful. I tried a quick: > > > >:color index black default ^[0-9]+..D > > > >but that coloured neither the pre-existing deleted messages, nor one > >subsequently deleted. Is your working solution very different? > > I use: > > color index blue black "~D" > > I see someone's already mentioned "Patterns" to you instead of regexps:-) > > In case anyone cares, I list my colour scheme below. Bear in mind I > work in green-on-black terminals. > > The main points of interest are: > > - "new" messages get cyan index lines - more visible than "read" messages > > - serious warning messages from monitoring systems get red index lines > > - message bodies colour "(FAIL|ERROR|CRITICAL|DOWN)" in red also
Something else worth mentioning is that the effect of these rules depends on the order in which they are defined. Later rules supersede earlier rules. Regards, Gary
