* On Thu, 16 May 2002, Sven Guckes wrote:
> mutt behaves the way you expect it to,
> that is the follwoing lines show up in
> "blue on default":
>
> > This is in "quoted" color
> > This is in "quoted" color again
>
> the follwoing lines however
> are not shown in the colors
> you wrote:
>
> | This is in "quoted1" color
> : This is in "quoted2" color
> } This is in "quoted" color
> # This is in "quoted1" color
Did anyone using a similar $quote_regexp see strange coloring on
my original post? (I am seeing it on the above re-quoted lines
as well, so it's not just the first quote character that affects
it.)
> I'm sure there must be something else
> in your setup which changes this.
>
> > It seems when the _leading_ quote prefix changes,
> > the color sequence is not reset, but continues
> > where it left off, and going back to the first
> > leading quote prefix ("> " above), resets it again.
>
> any hooks involved? check your setup.
> or try again with *no* setup at all!
>
> mutt -F /dev/null
>
> does it work as expected now?
I started mutt as above and then manually entered the "color
quotedx" commands by hand at the colon prompt -- still the same
behavior.
> if not - did you compile with
> ncurses or slang? (see "mutt -v")
Is one preferred over the other? Here is the mutt -v output:
Mutt 1.3.28i (2002-03-13)
Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: Linux 2.4.18 (i686) [using ncurses 5.1]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE
+USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
-USE_POP -USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_SASL
+HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
++HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID -HAVE_GETADDRINFO
ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER
To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.
> > Vim, for example, seems to display this correctly,
> > although it uses different quote prefixes by default.
>
> comparing apples with oranges? ;-)
Probably, just thought that might eliminate some possible causes.
Maybe not.
--
John
