On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 04:31:11PM +1000, raf wrote:
On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 01:20:27AM -0400, Jon LaBadie <mut...@jgcomp.com> wrote:
I've always preferred a black letters on white background scheme.
However, after cataract surgery I'm considering using a dark
background scheme.
Has anyone a technique for defining multiple color schemes and
toggling among them while using mutt?
I already keep my color scheme in a separate file and source
that file from ~/.muttrc. To extend that, I created two
files for light and dark schemes and separate macros (,l and ,d)
to source them while running mutt.
I'd like to reduce that to a single macro that toggles between
the files or one that allows selecting from multiple scheme
files, perhaps in round robin fashion.
Someone else will probably give a better answer, but
here goes. If you have different colour schemes setup
in different files, you can probably set up a macro in
your ~/.muttrc that enables the colour scheme you want
by sourcing the relevant file. e.g. something like:
macro index something :source colour-scheme-1.muttrc\n
macro index something :source colour-scheme-2.muttrc\n
Where "something" is a key sequence that doesn't
already do something you care about (e.g. A1, A2).
That is exactly what I've currently implemented.
For macro names, I sometimes pick my favorite single letter
and add a leading comma. So my two macros are named ,d (dark)
and ,l (light).
Toggling will be more complicated, but doable, if it's really
needed. It might involve having the macro source a single file,
and also run an external command that replaces the contents of
that file with the "other" file. e.g. something like:
schemes that edit or copy files seem too prone to unanticipated
mess-ups.
Jon
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