on Tue, 02 Dec 2003 11:16:34PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland insinuated:
> 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
>
[...]
>
> I can then start terminals with particular colour schemes by using
>
> $ x-terminal-emulator -name zenburn
> $ x-terminal-emulator -name deepsea
hey, that's really cool -- thanks!
> 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?
yeah, that would be great -- but i'm still not sure how to put
conditionals into the muttrc file ...
maybe i could put those all in two different files, say
~/.mutt/rc.colors.1 and ~/.mutt/rc.colors.2, and then pick which one
to source based on the name of the terminal i'm working in.
but how do i find out the name? $DISPLAY is just ":0.0"; $TERM says
"rxvt" ... if i do an `aterm -name foobar`, is there any way i can
access the name 'foobar' from within that, by means of setting some
environment variable or something?
thanks again,
</nori>
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