Re: conditionals in ~/.muttrc ?

[Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@compsoc.dur.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:47:22PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> in my vim configuration files, i have different settings for dark and
> light terminal backgrouds
<snip>
> i'd like to have the same functionality in my ~/.muttrc.  looking at
> the documentation, i can't see that it supports conditionals.  does
> it?  if so, how can i put one in like that?

You may be able to achieve the same effect using named x terminals.

I have various colour schemes defined in ~/.Xresources[1], such as

	! zenburn
	zenburn*background:     #3f3f3f
	zenburn*foreground:     #dcdccc
	zenburn*color0:         #3f3f3f
	zenburn*color1:         #ff0000
	...
	! deepsea
	deepsea*background:     #000040
	deepsea*foreground:     LightSteelBlue2

I can then start terminals with particular colour schemes by using

	$ x-terminal-emulator -name zenburn
	$ x-terminal-emulator -name deepsea

Perhaps you could define dark and light colour re-mappings for the same
mutt colour scheme this way, and name your terminals according to their
background colours?



[1] seems to be parsed at X startup, but if you want to make changes
    carry across without restarting X, use 
    $ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
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Jon Dowland
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