Color control in Mutt Gnome terminal
I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other pairings that are pre-configured options. How / Where can I configure background/foreground pairings that work for my eyes? -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Color control in Mutt Gnome terminal
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon scribbled... I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other pairings that are pre-configured options. How / Where can I configure background/foreground pairings that work for my eyes? Add this to your ~/.muttrc (or ~/.mutt/muttrc) and play with the settings. #color normal white default color hdrdefault red default# Things like to, date, etc. color quoted brightblue default # ?? color signature red default color indicator red white color error brightred default color status brightwhite blue color tree magenta default # the thread tree in the index menu color tilde magenta default color message brightcyan default color markers brightcyan default color attachment brightmagenta default color search default green # how to hilite search patterns in the pager color header brightred default ^(From|Subject): color body magenta default (ftp|http)://[^ ]+ # point out URLs color body magenta default [EMAIL PROTECTED] # e-mail addresses color underline brightgreen default
Re: Color control in Mutt Gnome terminal
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other pairings that are pre-configured options. How / Where can I configure background/foreground pairings that work for my eyes? /etc/Muttrc has system wide color setting. You don't want to set colors system wide, put color settings you want in your .muttrc. Also see man muttrc. -- Jerome
Re: Color control in Mutt Gnome terminal
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:49:44PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other pairings that are pre-configured options. How / Where can I configure background/foreground pairings that work for my eyes? /etc/Muttrc has system wide color setting. You don't want to set colors system wide, put color settings you want in your .muttrc. Also see man muttrc. Also, right mouse click on your gnome terminal; select preferences; and change color scheme. If you pick Custom, you can also change color pallet. -- Jerome
Re: Color control in Mutt Gnome terminal
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:48:09 -0800 Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other pairings that are pre-configured options. How / Where can I configure background/foreground pairings that work for my eyes? What terminal emulator are you using? Almost all terminal emulators have the option of configuring what colour is displayed(with very fine granularity, for instance, using RGB colour codes) when an application requests blue(or red, or green, or whatever). I prefer this method over changing what colour Mutt requests. For many terminal emulators, four or five colours are difficult to see using the defaults. Instead of reducing the number of colours I let my applications use, I just modify what the terminal emulator displays, making them readable. -- .--=-=-=-=--=---=-=-=. /David Barclay HarrisAut agere, aut mori. \ \Clan Barclay Either action, or death./ `---==-=-=-=-===-=---=--='
Re: Color control in Mutt Gnome terminal
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:02:12PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon scribbled... I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other pairings that are pre-configured options. How / Where can I configure background/foreground pairings that work for my eyes? Add this to your ~/.muttrc (or ~/.mutt/muttrc) and play with the settings. #color normal white default color hdrdefault red default# Things like to, date, etc. color quoted brightblue default # ?? color signature red default color indicator red white color error brightred default color status brightwhite blue color tree magenta default # the thread tree in the index menu color tilde magenta default color message brightcyan default color markers brightcyan default color attachment brightmagenta default color search default green # how to hilite search patterns in the pager color header brightred default ^(From|Subject): color body magenta default (ftp|http)://[^ ]+ # point out URLs color body magenta default [EMAIL PROTECTED] # e-mail addresses color underline brightgreen default Thanks. But I don't see bright as part of a color name on the man page. What are the color names that work? Is there a way to display an exhaustive list of foreground/background combinations? Or are there two many colors for that to be realistic? -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Color control in Mutt Gnome terminal
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:24:50PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: | On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:02:12PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: | On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon scribbled... | I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and | exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- | culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other pairings that | are pre-configured options. How / Where can I configure background/foreground | pairings that work for my eyes? | Add this to your ~/.muttrc (or ~/.mutt/muttrc) and play with the settings. | #color normal white default | color hdrdefault red default# Things like to, date, etc. | color quoted brightblue default # ?? | color signature red default | color indicator red white | color error brightred default | color status brightwhite blue | color tree magenta default # the thread tree in the index menu | color tilde magenta default | color message brightcyan default | color markers brightcyan default | color attachment brightmagenta default | color search default green # how to hilite search patterns in the pager | | color header brightred default ^(From|Subject): | color body magenta default (ftp|http)://[^ ]+ # point out URLs | color body magenta default [EMAIL PROTECTED] # e-mail addresses | color underline brightgreen default | | Thanks. | | But I don't see bright as part of a color name on the man page. | What are the color names that work? Is there a way to display an exhaustive | list of foreground/background combinations? Or are there two many colors for | that to be realistic? http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html#color foreground and background can be one of the following: * white * black * green * magenta * blue * cyan * yellow * red * default * colorx foreground can optionally be prefixed with the keyword bright to make the foreground color boldfaced (e.g., brightred). My preference is to use vim for the pager. Specifically 'view' (defaults to readonly) with the 'less.vim' script to make the keybindings behave like less (until you press 'v', then you can copy-n-paste like usual in vim). set pager='view -X -c so $HOME/util/script/less.vim' (less.vim comes from the upstream vim distribution; it might be in the vim-extra package or something) I have syntax highlighting enabled in vim with the following parameters : highlight Normal guibg=black guifg=grey90 set background=dark makes syntax highlighing lighter syntax on My terminal (console or gnome-terminal) has a black background. gvim does too (with the above settings). HTH, -D -- GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions. --Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)
