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List:       mutt-users
Subject:    Colour issues in mutt under S-Lang
From:       "Daniel P. Wright" <dani () dpwright ! com>
Date:       2012-08-24 2:54:15
Message-ID: 20120824025415.GA29218 () vitei ! com
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Hello,

I've been trying to tweak my colour scheme recently, and found some
strange functionality which I don't understand.  I'm not sure if it's a
bug or an error in my configuration -- and if it is a bug I don't know
whether it lies in mutt, or s-lang, or my terminal.

The problem is as follows: colour highlighting seems to change based on
what colours are set for *other* highlighted objects.  For example, if I
have the following two rules in my configuration:

    color index brightmagenta   default   "~P"
    color index magenta         default   "~f hiyokko | ~C hiyokko"

Configured as above, messages from me are highlighted in bright magenta
(with bold text), and messages from or to hiyokko are highlighted in
magenta, as you would expect.  However, if I change the rule for
messages from me to be blue instead of brightmagenta, ie:

    color index blue            default   "~P"
    color index magenta         default   "~f hiyokko | ~C hiyokko"

The messages from me work fine -- they are highlighted in blue -- but
messages to or from hiyokko are suddenly highlighted in bright orange.

Of course, I have quite a few more rules than this in real life, and I
find that increasingly modifying or adding a rule is a delicate
balancing act -- I tweak the colours for SVN notifications, only to find
that the subject line and first level of quotations -- previously set to
blue -- have turned bright green!

I tried compiling against curses instead of slang, but colours barely
worked at all when I did that.

Any advice appreciated.  My configuration can be found on github[1].
It's based on a "solarized" theme I found on the internet with bits
commented out and replaced here and there so it's a bit messy, but
hopefully understandable.  The output of "mutt -v" is as follows:

Mutt 1.5.21 (2011-07-01)
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

    System: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE (i386)
    slang: 20204
    libiconv: 1.14
    libidn: 1.22 (compiled with 1.22)
    hcache backend: GDBM version 1.9.1. 13/08/2011 (built Nov 27 2011
    11:03:27)
    コンパイル時オプション:
    -DOMAIN
    -DEBUG
    -HOMESPOOL  +USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  +DL_STANDALONE  -USE_FCNTL
    -USE_FLOCK
    -USE_POP  -USE_IMAP  -USE_SMTP
    -USE_SSL_OPENSSL  -USE_SSL_GNUTLS  -USE_SASL  -USE_GSS
    -HAVE_GETADDRINFO
    +HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX
    +HAVE_COLOR  -HAVE_START_COLOR  -HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  -HAVE_BKGDSET
    -HAVE_CURS_SET  -HAVE_META  -HAVE_RESIZETERM
    +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP  +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME
    -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME
    -EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT
    +ENABLE_NLS  +LOCALES_HACK  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
    +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
    +HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  +HAVE_LIBIDN  +HAVE_GETSID  +USE_HCACHE
    -ISPELL
    SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
    MAILPATH="/var/mail"
    PKGDATADIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
    SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
    EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
    -MIXMASTER
    開発者(本家)に連絡をとるには <mutt-dev@mutt.org> へメールせよ。
    バグをレポートするには http://bugs.mutt.org/ を参照のこと。
    日本語版のバグレポートおよび連絡は mutt-j-users ML へ。

Many thanks,

Dani.

[1] https://github.com/dpwright/dotfiles/blob/master/.mutt/mutt-colors-solarized-dark-16.muttrc

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