Dear Mutt Aficionados, I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, but either way, I want to make it go away :)
I wanted new messages in the index view to be colored in bold yellow. Hence I put 'color index brightyellow default ~N' in my sourced color file. What I'm about to explain is a way in which this seems to work incorrectly, while 'color index brightyellow black ~N' works properly. My terminal has a black background, so using 'default' as the background for brightyellow should yield brightyellow text on black background. Alas, Mutt only partly does this. When there is only one new message in the index, all is fine. When there is more than one new message in the index, then moving the indicator bar over any new message except the topmost one will cause the brightyellow to turn into regular yellow (and back again when the indicator bar goes upward past it). This is mega-irritating. Is this a bug? Or a feature? Or merely a property? How can I get around this? It happens both in OSX Terminals and in X11 ones including xterm, rxvt, eterm. On a lark, I replaced 'default' with 'black', and everything behaves properly. However, sometimes I like my terminals to have backgrounds other than black, in which case 'color index brightyellow black' will cause an equally annoying background bar underneath any new messages. I dont' want to have to call a different color file for different terminal settings, so this is not a great solution. Many thanks, GMN
