Re: Color control in Mutt & Gnome terminal

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:02:12PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon scribbled...
> > I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and
> > exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi-
> > culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other pairings that
> > are pre-configured options. How / Where can I configure background/foreground
> > pairings that work for my eyes?
> Add this to your ~/.muttrc (or ~/.mutt/muttrc) and play with the settings.
> #color normal white default
> color hdrdefault red default    # Things like to, date, etc.
> color quoted brightblue default # ??
> color signature red default
> color indicator red white
> color error brightred default
> color status brightwhite blue
> color tree magenta default  # the thread tree in the index menu
> color tilde magenta default
> color message brightcyan default
> color markers brightcyan default
> color attachment brightmagenta default
> color search default green  # how to hilite search patterns in the pager
> 
> color header brightred default ^(From|Subject):
> color body magenta default "(ftp|http)://[^ ]+" # point out URLs
> color body magenta default [-a-z_0-9.]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+  # e-mail addresses
> color underline brightgreen default
> 
> 
Thanks. 

But I don't see "bright" as part of a color name on the man page. 
What are the color names that work? Is there a way to display an exhaustive
list of foreground/background combinations? Or are there two many colors for
that to be realistic?


-- 
Paul E Condon 
pecondon@quiknet.com