On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:15:12PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
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> If you plan to switch to vim at some point in the future, why would you
> want to bother about such trivial aspects as nano coloring?
>
> Don't waste time fine-tuning a car that's headed for the junkyard.
I do appreciate your perspecti
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 07:19:11PM EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:59:26AM +0200, Eyolf ?strem wrote:
> >
> > Is this perhaps the place to suggest a switch to vim...? Not only is
> > it the best editor in existence, it also has any color scheme
> > imaginable (and then s
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:59:26AM +0200, Eyolf ?strem wrote:
>
> Is this perhaps the place to suggest a switch to vim...? Not only is
> it the best editor in existence, it also has any color scheme
> imaginable (and then some).
>
> For nano, you could google "nanorc". At dotfiles, there are som
On 16.09.2007 (15:36), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What I still would like to know is, do I have to accept using
> nano (as Mutt's email editor) in black & white, or is it possible
> to make nano display the same colors (as mutt displays based
> on the .muttrc configuration file?)
Is this perhaps t
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 06:23:43PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
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> Dunno about nano but you certainly could do it with vim.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fcky/pager.png
> http://www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fcky/editor.png
>
> Time to switch?
Actually I did install vim and used it for a while...
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 06:16:31PM -0400, John wrote:
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> I flinch at the thought of the flame-wars that may result from this
> simple factual statement: my .muttrc reads
>
> # set my choice for editor
> set editor=/usr/bin/"emacs-snapshot -geometry 75x39"
>
> Substitute the emacs or other edito
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 01:14:59PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2007-09-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > (what's "HTH?")
>
> Hope That Helps or Hope This Helps.
Yes, very much, thanks. You guys have been very much helpful...
What I still would like to know is, do I have to accept using
na
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:21:29PM EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:25:05AM -0400, John wrote:
> >
> > Here's one way of doing it, mostly lifted from the efforts of
> > others. You can fiddle with colors to suit yourself, of course.
>
> Thank you so very much, John. Actu
On (16/09/07 12:28), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ...
> So, are you a lot of you guys using external textmode editors
> in the place of Mutt's "primitive" one? What are the intelligent
> alternatives? Is it feasible, then, to make your external textmode
> editor match mutt's colors?
I flinch at t
On 2007-09-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:03:05AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > HTH,
> > Gary
>
> HTH,
> Franz
>
> (what's "HTH?")
Hope That Helps or Hope This Helps.
Regards,
Gary
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:03:05AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
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> 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 yo
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:44:42PM +0200, Rado S wrote:
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> External editor (which need not be GUI like nano!) is always better
> than mutt's built-in (if you really meant that rather than merely a
> _textmode_ editor like vi), because built-in is too primitive to be
> happy with it all the time.
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:25:05AM -0400, John wrote:
>
> Here's one way of doing it, mostly lifted from the efforts of
> others. You can fiddle with colors to suit yourself, of course.
Thank you so very much, John. Actually, right after looking at
your code I started fiddling with it as suggest
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:12:59PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:
> I have still not plucked up the courage to admit that I never saw the
> reply to my post and I have no idea what was said!
Your argument is spurious. Any decently managed mailing list maintains
archives of past messages. It is not ne
On 2007-09-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I use it from console most of the time and tried a couple of color
> combinations, but the bright colors coupled with the traditional
> black background get to fatigue my eyes very quickly.
> My preference would be a white/light gray background and not-t
On (16/09/07 06:30), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ...
> I use it from console most of the time and tried a couple of color
> combinations, but the bright colors coupled with the traditional
> black background get to fatigue my eyes very quickly.
> My preference would be a white/light gray backgroun
=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun 16.Sep'07 at 6:30:04 -0700 -=
> { color config }
> I do not know enough to create my own, so can someone suggest
> where some good code to that extent for my .muttrc can be found?
See ConfigList on wiki.
> Advantages/disadvantages of using an external editor?
Hello everyone, this is my first message and I am new to Mutt...
installed 1.4.2.3 a few days ago... so far the learning curve
seems to be pretty steep, but at last I got to the point where I am
actually emailing with it. :)
I use it from console most of the time and tried a couple of color
co
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:12:59PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:
> I am not, nor ever have been, a top poster. I would however just like to play
> Devil's Advocate for a moment and just point out a couple of examples where
> one might be grateful for it:
>
> When usenet newsgroups were more popular
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