Re: [survey] mutt - default settings on Debian
On (04/03/05 22:09), Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this is a simple survey to convince the maintainer of mutt to change
> some default settings in Debian's /etc/Muttrc. Please comment parts of
> this mail with (change it | keep current) and send it back to me:
I don't know how many people use the default muttrc. I started out
using one of the many examples available and have adapted that to my
needs.
> - display of the date - by (current) default, the Date: field is not
> displayed together with the message text. The only way to see the
> date is to leave the pager and look at the index line, and there is
> still only the short string (Jun 12), no year, no exact time.
> Suggested change:
> remove "ignore date" setting and make the date visible everywhere
Agree, although you can hit 'h' to see the headers. I do think that
time of message is important.
>
> - colors: the current color map is acceptable but sucks WRT clear
> visible contrasts: green on blue is not good readable, black on blue
> is also bad.
> Suggested changes (attached):
> more White-on-Blue
> red index marker
> dark-green unimportant header lines
> bright-yellow Subject: and Date: fields
Colour is a subjective thing and at least if the colours are in the
.muttrc, it is fairly easy to change them to suit one's own taste.
Here's mine FWIW:
# Here get the colors defined
color attachment white magenta # ..
color body cyan default "ftp://[^ ]*"
color body brightgreen default
"[[:alnum:]][-+.#_[:alnum:]]*@[-+.[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]]"
color body cyan default "<URL:[^ ]*>"
color bold green default # ..
color error red default # global
color header yellow default "^cc: "
color header green default "^date: "
color header yellow default "^from "
color header brightcyan default "^from: "
color header yellow default "^newsgroups: "
color header yellow default "^reply-to: "
color header brightcyan default "^subject: "
color header green default "^to: "
color header yellow default "^x-mailer: "
color header yellow default "^message-id:"
color header yellow default "^Organization:"
color header yellow default "^Organisation:"
color header yellow default "^User-Agent:"
color header yellow default "^message-id: .*pine"
color indicator black green # index
color markers red default # index
color message white blue # index
color normal white default # pager body
color quoted cyan default
color quoted1 yellow default
color quoted2 red default
>
> - current settings hide the index view when the message is beeing
> displayed in the pager. I think it makes sense to keep the overview
> of the next few messages while the current message is displayed.
> Suggested change:
> set pager_index_lines=5
Couldn't agree more. The few servers I monitor have the default muttrc
and I keep meaning to sort this one out but it's not been a high
priority.
>
> Thanks for your comments,
> Eduard.
You're welcome ;)
Regards
Clive
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