On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:30:51PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:16:28PM +1200, Keith McGavin wrote:
> > my ~/.muttrc file
> > ###  color body yellow black "[ \t]>?[;:][-=]?[PpD)/(|}{><]"
 
> above is split into 5 parts:
> [ \t]          -> Must start with a space or tab. (some pastings of command
>                   line promts have ":/" in them.
> >?             -> An optional ">" - A frown.
> [;:]           -> The eyes
> [-=]?          -> optional nose.
> [PpD)/(|}{><]  -> different mouths.
 
> > I'm using mutt 1.4i. Does your expression work ok on your mutt mua.
 
> Yep. works perfectly. (Mutt 1.4i (2002-05-29))

With mine too. (Mutt 1.3.28i (2002-03-13))
 
Some tweaks:  "(^|[ \t])>?[;:8=][-^]?[][PpD)/(|}{><]"

Note the intentional [], which isn't a [] at all ;)

To put a ']' in a character list, the ']' must be the first
character listed. To match a '-', put it first or last.

There's a neat regex manual here:

http://sunsite.utk.edu/gnu/regex/regex_toc.html


Tim
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