Re: How can I underline the current index entry?

[Michael Elkins]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 08:30:50AM +0000, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> Why is this? This is a mutt limitation isn't it, as other ncurses apps
> (w3m) can colour *and* underline, perhaps this should get placed on a
> TODO list?

Try the following patch.  It's a hack that lets you use underline when you
prefix one of the color names with an underscore:

        color _brightred yellow

should get you underlined bold read fg on yellow bg.

--- color.c~    Thu Jan 24 04:10:48 2002
+++ color.c     Sun Feb 10 21:56:53 2002
@@ -305,6 +305,13 @@ parse_color_name (const char *s, int *co
 {
   char *eptr;
 
+  /* XXX hack to allow underline with colors */
+  if (*s == '_')
+  {
+    *attr |= A_UNDERLINE;
+    s++;
+  }
+
   if (mutt_strncasecmp (s, "bright", 6) == 0)
   {
     *attr |= brite;