Hi Michael!
On So, 07 Sep 2014, Michael Treibton wrote:
> I'm trying to see if it's possible to color threads in a certain way.
> At the moment I have this in my .muttrc:
>
> color index green default "~v"
>
> Which very nicely makes the *top*-level email in a given thread green.
>
> however, is it possible to get mutt to also assign a color to the
> other emails in that thread somehow? Might it also be possible to
> give the top-level thread a different color to the other emails in
> that thread?
Since ~v only works for collapsed threads, I would go with something
different, e.g. check for the existence of In-Reply-To or References
header:
:color index green default "!(~h In-Reply-To:|~h References)" # first mail of
a thread
:color index blue default "(~h In-Reply-To:|~h References)" # Mails within a
thread
Note, however, that this might slow down loading a mailbox considerably
(especially, if you use IMAP, because mutt then has to fetch more data
from the IMAP server. This doesn't seem to matter for the References and
In-Reply-To headers, according to the documentation, but is something
one wants to keep in mind, before making a decision on what header to
color)
> I'm trying to make things easier on the eye in terms of threading, and
> am trying to use colors to do it.
>
> i wonder if it's possible to also assign random/different colors to
> each thread in mutt? that'd be cool.
I don't think this is possible, currently.
regards,
Christian
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