Re: Mutt color scheme

2021-03-01 Thread Nemo Thorx
Quoting Francesco Ariis from 02 Mar (a Tuesday in 2021) at 0335 hours... > Il 01 marzo 2021 alle 17:37 M.R.P. zensky ha scritto: > > Hello running ubuntu linux have mutt installed and I am wondering > > if I can change the color scheme? > > Sure! The `color` directive is used like > > color i

Re: Mutt color scheme

2021-03-01 Thread Francesco Ariis
Il 01 marzo 2021 alle 17:37 M.R.P. zensky ha scritto: > Hello running ubuntu linux have mutt installed and I am wondering > if I can change the color scheme? Sure! The `color` directive is used like color indicator yellow black and does what you ask. More info: http://www.mutt.org/doc/m

Mutt color scheme

2021-03-01 Thread M.R.P. zensky
Hello running ubuntu linux have mutt installed and I am wondering if I can change the color scheme?

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-09-01 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Wednesday, 01 September 2010: > Chip, > > I installed mutt 1.5.20 from sunfreeware and found that we > where missing several required packages, including slang. > > I installed and mutt seems to open my outbox ok, That is > the index displays correctly with header and foote

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-09-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
Chip, I installed mutt 1.5.20 from sunfreeware and found that we where missing several required packages, including slang. I installed and mutt seems to open my outbox ok, That is the index displays correctly with header and footer inverse and the index bar being visible. Typically the outbox d

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-09-01 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Wednesday, 01 September 2010: > Chip, > > > curie's mutt is built with slang, nnewton's is built with ncurses. That > > probably accounts for the difference. > > I finally got a download of a newer mutt version from sunfreeware > and will install it on the Solaris x86 plat

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-09-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
Chip, > curie's mutt is built with slang, nnewton's is built with ncurses. That > probably accounts for the difference. I finally got a download of a newer mutt version from sunfreeware and will install it on the Solaris x86 platform. Assuming that its also built with slang - do you know what

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-09-01 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Wednesday, 01 September 2010: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:57:39PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:16:03PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > > > >

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-09-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:57:39PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:16:03PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > > > > This is telling... > > > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > for col

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:37:48PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > You could probably get mutt to start with TERM=screen-bce is termcap has > an appropriate entry for it. I found that even though mutt with slang > uses terminfo, it queries termcap on startup. screen(1) does set TERMCAP in the environ

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Nicolas Williams on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > BTW, I use screen in gnome-terminal. > > I notice the following: > > - TERM is screen-bce; > > - VIM works fine, handles colors; > > - Mutt built with S-Lang does not start unless I set TERM to xterm or >xterm-color; Mutt complains tha

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Nicolas Williams
BTW, I use screen in gnome-terminal. I notice the following: - TERM is screen-bce; - VIM works fine, handles colors; - Mutt built with S-Lang does not start unless I set TERM to xterm or xterm-color; Mutt complains that "Key sequence is too long", "SLcurses_initscr: init failed"; - I

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Nicolas Williams
May I suggest that trimming some of the quoted material in these messages? It'd make it easier to read the thread, and maybe help out. Nico --

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:16:03PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > > > This is telling... > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > for color in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 0 > > > do > > > echo "`tput

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > >From Chip Camden > > > Try this at a shell prompt: > > > > echo "`tput AF 1`hello`tput me`" > > > > "hello" should be in red. > > Chip - B/W only, plus the errors. I'm guessing that the > errors tell us where the root of the problem is. > > O

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:16:03PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > > This is telling... > > > > #!/bin/sh > > for color in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 0 > > do > > echo "`tput setaf ${color}``date`" > > done > > > > > > output is as expe

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > This is telling... > > #!/bin/sh > for color in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 0 > do > echo "`tput setaf ${color}``date`" > done > > > output is as expected for the first 8 colors, that is > Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cy

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Cuttler
This is telling... #!/bin/sh for color in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 0 do echo "`tput setaf ${color}``date`" done output is as expected for the first 8 colors, that is Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White (on white...) When run on my Solaris 10 desktop I then get

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Will Fiveash
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:54:39PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > Will, > > Here is a crazy test. from the system I'd ssh'd into, I ssh'd > to a linux box where, the # ls command there has an option to > display different types of files in different colors. That worked > perfectly. > > Term the

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > Chip, > > This works a little better > # echo "`tput setaf 1`hello`tput me`" > tput: unknown terminfo capability 'me' > hello > > Where we are in red from hello onwards. > > So there are some colors available. > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Cuttler
Chip, This works a little better # echo "`tput setaf 1`hello`tput me`" tput: unknown terminfo capability 'me' hello Where we are in red from hello onwards. So there are some colors available. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 Au

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > >From Chip Camden > > > Try this at a shell prompt: > > > > echo "`tput AF 1`hello`tput me`" > > > > "hello" should be in red. > > Chip - B/W only, plus the errors. I'm guessing that the > errors tell us where the root of the problem is. > > O

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Cuttler
>From Chip Camden > Try this at a shell prompt: > > echo "`tput AF 1`hello`tput me`" > > "hello" should be in red. Chip - B/W only, plus the errors. I'm guessing that the errors tell us where the root of the problem is. Ok, I'm guessing that the errors will tells someone who is not me where

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Cuttler
Will, Here is a crazy test. from the system I'd ssh'd into, I ssh'd to a linux box where, the # ls command there has an option to display different types of files in different colors. That worked perfectly. Term there was xterm and there was also the addtional env var of COLORTERM set to 1. By

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Cuttler
Will, I'd tried term vt100 and dtterm, setting both xterm and xterm-color env vars I now get a black block cursor in the last column of the index as I move up and down the message index. looking more and more like a termcap issue... I'll see if there are other vt100 or dtterm color settings as w

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > Chip, > > No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only > to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse) > the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the > message I'm currently pointing to in the

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Will Fiveash
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:56:01PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... > > Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) > to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that > my colors and highlighting don't work

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Cuttler
Chip, No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse) the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the message I'm currently pointing to in the index. With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a ter

Re: mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: > Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... > > Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) > to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that > my colors and highlighting don't work at all. > > Chec

mutt - color problem

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that my colors and highlighting don't work at all. Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes,

Re: Mutt color limitations

2002-08-21 Thread Lee J. Moore
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:57:21AM +0100, Lee J. Moore wrote: > > | 'brightwhite' creates *bold* white text, whereas 'white' creates > | grey text > > FWIW, I've seen in the gnome-terminal palette that "white" really is > grey, and "brightwhit

Re: Mutt color limitations

2002-08-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:57:21AM +0100, Lee J. Moore wrote: | 'brightwhite' creates *bold* white text, whereas 'white' creates | grey text FWIW, I've seen in the gnome-terminal palette that "white" really is grey, and "brightwhite" is really white. The solution there is to tweak the terminal

Re: Mutt color limitations

2002-08-20 Thread Lee J. Moore
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Philip Wittamore wrote: > Le (20/08/02 23:16), Lee J. Moore à ecrit: > > > Maybe it's only a minority of Mutt users who want more than > > eight colours. > > do you think that some believe that colour is too un-nerdy ? Um...no! I don't care about others perceptions. If I

Re: Mutt color limitations

2002-08-20 Thread Rob 'Feztaa' Park
--Pk6IbRAofICFmK5e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alas! Lee J. Moore spake thus: > I've got one ugly mutt here atm. ;( I seem to be able to get by with only 8 colors. Although, I did implement the hack that le

Re: Mutt color limitations

2002-08-20 Thread Lee J. Moore
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote: [..] > 8 colors are standard (the majority of those 16-color > applications are assuming that bold colors are bright - which > is not a valid assumption in many cases). Well, as an example, in slrn, I've got a lightgray statusbar with white text. Easier

Re: Mutt color limitations

2002-08-20 Thread Philip Wittamore
Le (20/08/02 23:16), Lee J. Moore à ecrit: > Maybe it's only a minority of Mutt users who want more than > eight colours. do you think that some believe that colour is too un-nerdy ? me, I'm a brand of monkey, and colour is just as important for my mail as it was when my great-grandaddy was pic

Re: Mutt color limitations

2002-08-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:16:55PM +0100, Lee J. Moore wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Philip Wittamore wrote: > > > Hmm.. > > I compiled mutt with slang, and I discovered that contrary to > > ncurses, the headers now had background colour to the end of > > the line, but "brightblack" no longer w

Re: Mutt color limitations

2002-08-20 Thread Lee J. Moore
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Philip Wittamore wrote: > Hmm.. > I compiled mutt with slang, and I discovered that contrary to > ncurses, the headers now had background colour to the end of > the line, but "brightblack" no longer worked. (tried with > xterm, rxvt, aterm and konsole) Yep, same here. Co

RE : Mutt color limitations

2002-08-20 Thread Philip Wittamore
lor names and a higher selection of colours. Philip Wittamore, using outhouse because he's at work :-( > -Message d'origine- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] De la part de Lee J. Moore > Envoyé : mardi 20 août 2002 13:52 > À : [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Mutt color limitations

2002-08-20 Thread Lee J. Moore
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Lee J. Moore wrote: Oh woah is me for following up to my own followup but this is driving me nuts. ;) [..] > > Trying to > use color8 and above, results in [sic] errors. > [..] > This is despite the fact that color8 and above is available with > slrn in the same terminal.

Re: Mutt color limitations

2002-08-18 Thread Lee J. Moore
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Sven Guckes wrote: [..] > the number of color is certainly limited by your terminal. > now, if you could turn your monitor by 180 degrees then we > might be able to see what you're using... i think we need a > good color test... OK, I'm trying to

Re: Mutt color limitations

2002-08-18 Thread Sven Guckes
ficult. Perhaps easy if the > whole mutt color scheme was to be in mono but it's not. the number of color is certainly limited by your terminal. now, if you could turn your monitor by 180 degrees then we might be able to see what you're using... i think we need a good color test... Sven [thinking of something.. later]

Mutt color limitations

2002-08-18 Thread Lee J. Moore
Is there a patch anywhere to increase the number of colors available in Mutt? I'm trying to get it to match a new color scheme I've just created for slrn, but just getting a grey/white status line is difficult. Perhaps easy if the whole mutt color scheme was to be in mono but it'

Re: Mutt & Color

2000-07-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:25:00PM +0100, Jerry Walsh wrote: > I want to add color support to MUTT we just answered this on Saturday (which spawned a new thread about needing an FAQ). What dependencies does that port have? -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dickey.his.com ftp://dic

Re: Mutt & Color

2000-07-04 Thread Mrinal Kalakrishnan
Hi, Jerry Walsh typed: > I want to add color support to MUTT > the error it gives is: > Error in /home/jerry/.muttrc, line 29: color: unknown command Type in mutt -v. See if you have +HAVE_COLOR or -HAVE_COLOR (most probably the latter). Your ncurses version must be old - upgrade that and run co

Mutt & Color

2000-07-04 Thread Jerry Walsh
Hello I want to add color support to MUTT I used some of the sample configuration files on the mutt.org website but any of the ones i use all give erors regarding the color lines the error it gives is: Error in /home/jerry/.muttrc, line 29: color: unknown command Error in /home/jerry/.muttrc,