This one time, at band camp, otte@cats.ucsc.edu said:
> Hi,
>
> With Mutt I used to view text as black on white, until I did a dist
> upgrade. Since then mutt gives me black on black, which is impossible
> to read. I believe the problem is that my default color has changed
> from white (or very light) to black. The color section of my .muttrc
> file has remained unchanged, and is:
>
> # Color definitions
> color normal black default
> color hdrdefault red default
> color quoted white default
> color signature red default
> color indicator brightyellow red
> color error brightred default
> color status yellow 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
>
> I have tried changing the first line to:
> color normal black white
> That helps, but the background is more of a creme color than a bright
> white color as before, and as my normal rxvt terminal windows are. I
> could not find a place in .muttrc where the default color was set. Does
> anybody know how to set the default color, and to set it to bright white
> instead of the creamy white?
> Thanks,
>
> Ric
Change it to 'black brightwhite'?
Steve
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<Culus> OH MY GOD NOT A RANDOM QUOTE GENERATOR
<netgod> surely you didnt think that was static? how lame would that be?=20
:-)
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