Re: mutt messed up. colors black on black cant read any messages

[Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 09:05:24AM -0700, m laks wrote:
> Hi,
> I am writing this from yahoomail cause i cant read anything in mutt
> today. i must have hit some key sequence which changed the colors
> to black on black! 
> I have been using mutt with the following in the .muttrc
>  
> color normal	 black white
> color attachment brightyellow white
> color hdrdefault cyan white
> color indicator black cyan
> color markers	brightred white
> color quoted	green white
> color signature cyan black
> color status	brightgreen blue
> color tilde	blue black
> color tree	red white
> 
> color index	red black ~D
> color index	magenta black ~T
> # color of folders with new mail
> color sidebar_new yellow default
> 
> -----
> i tried to fix it by substituting in a plain vanilla .muttrc
> color normal	 black white
> color hdrdefault black white
> color quoted black white
> color signature black white
> color status white black
> color indicator white black
> # color of folders with new mail
> color sidebar_new yellow default
> 
> 
> but something seems make it so that as soon as I enter to look at a mail
> all i see is black and i cant read the text.
> 
> what can i do 
> 
> thanks!
> Mitchell
> 
> 

Do you source config files from somewhere else?
What happens when you comment out _all_ color statements?

-H


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