severity 270226 minor tags 270226 + wontfix thanks Re: Jens Kubieziel 2004-09-06 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I encountered a bug with color commands. This issue was also discussed > at mutt-user-ML (Subject: Displaying red fore- and background colors; > MID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). > > The two attached files are a mbox (colortest; > http://www.kubieziel.de/tmp/colortest) and a file with color > combinations for mutt (.mutt.colortest; > http://www.kubieziel.de/tmp/.mutt.colortest). If I open the mbox with > 'mutt -F .mutt.colortest -f colortest', mutt shows all color > combinations correct, except the combination (bright)red/red. This shows > up as (bright)white/black. > > When more than 8 lines from _beginning_ of the color combinations are > deleted, all are displayed correct. Within the file more than 16 lines > have to be deleted, to show up the colors correct. > > If I move all (bright)red/$COLOR combination to the top of the file, the > last (bright)$COLOR/red combination is displayed as (bright)white/black. > > If I move all (bright)$COLOR/red combinations to the top of the file, > nothing changes. > > Nicholas Rachinsky recommended that this is more a documentation bug > than a application bug.
Hi Jens, thanks for the report, and sorry for the very late follow up. This is a curses limitation, there is a maximum number of color pairs available: COLOR_PAIRS, see color(3NCURSES). There's not much mutt can do about it, unfortunately. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/
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