Thanks Ian and Kevin, now i got it to work:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 04:41:56PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 12:09:10AM +0200, nfb wrote: > > There are, however, some parts that preserve a solid black background, > > like the "[-- Attachment ... --]", "[-- appication/zip ... --]", > > "[-- Type ... --]", "[-- Autoview using ... --]" strings, > > Those should be covered by the 'attachment' color object. Have you > tried setting the background for that to default? I wasn't setting this one because i couldn't see how "Autoview" or PGP related strings could have something to do with "attachments" properly said. I thought this option affected the attachment menu, which was fine, so i never bothered about it... > > or the empty bottom of the mail body when you scroll al the way down > > (even after the signature, if any). > > This should be covered by the 'tilde' color object. I skipped this one too, because i have never seen any tilde in my mutt pager, so i never thought this was the case. > > And shouldn't the directive "color normal default default" (which i > > obviously have in my rc file) already cover this? > > No, that won't change the default for all the different color objects. > Normal just represents "everything else" not covered by the other color > objects. Oh, thank you for this clarification too, and in fact i was thinking there was no object covering my cases :) Thanks again guys.
