On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:57:39PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2009-10-28, Horacio Sanson <hsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does anyone know how to make mutt display patches/diff files in color? > > > > I am using pygmentize that in a terminal outputs the diff/patch files with > > easy to read > > colors but when used from within mutt the text is displayed correctly but > > not colored. > > > > Here is my configuration: > > > > My .mailcap file: > > > > text/x-diff;pygmentize -f console %s;copiousoutput > > text/x-patch;pygmentize -f console %s;copiousoutput > > > > My .muttrc file: > > > > auto_view text/x-diff > > auto_view text/x-patch > > > > > > I can see in Mutt that the pygmentize command is being called but the output > > text is not colored on the console. > > Try this in your .muttrc: > > set allow_ansi >
Thanks a lot... Now all patch/diff files are beautifully displayed in Mutt. Using pygmentize I can potentially colorize all text attachments. > > As second question how do I change the mime type of received emails based on > > extension? without using procmail? Some times I get patches/diff with > > mime-type > > set to plain/text and I want to change them to text/x-patch or text/x-diff > > based on extension. > > This was originally intended for application/octet-stream but was > generalized to handle other MIME types. I don't know whether it > will work for text/plain. Look in the mutt manual for > 'mime_lookup'. > This also seemed to work very well. So far all files with patch or diff extensions appear as text/x-diff mime. > HTH, > Gary > > -- regards, Horacio Sanson
