Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 10:17:54 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote:
> Alain D D Williams wrote: 
> > I read/write email using mutt in a mate terminal. It is black & white. If I ssh
> > in from my laptop it is yellow & black (I cannot remember why I set it up like
> > that).
> 
> For about a decade, I color-coded the default text in my
> terminals to indicate where I was SSHd in. (I tended to have a
> dozen terminal windows open at once.)
> 
> These days I color-code the bash prompt, instead.

Same here: coloured bash prompt, with reverse video for root.
I colour the status bar in mutt, the mode-line in emacs, and the
hotkey (bottom) line in mc. I also colour the menu (top) line
in mc differently when one panel is displaying a remote host.
FWIW.

Cheers,
David.