On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 11:16:56AM +1000, Troy Piggins wrote: > * Toby <tobia.conforto@xxxxxxxx> : > > > > Does Mutt have any native option to highlight this kind of *bold*, > > /italic/, and _underline_ oftentimes used on the net? > > Not that I'm aware of - regex's I use: > > color body brightwhite default "(^|[^[:alnum:]*])+[*]($|[-[:alnum:]])+[*]" # > bold Note that [:alnum:] is the same as \w, the latter being much shorter to type, and (IMO) easier to parse visually.... This is a hard problem to solve with a regex, because as you point out, other things (like paths or regexes) can easily match unintentionally. Also the problem is compounded by the fact that such expression can span multiple lines, such as this example: *this text in between the asterisks should all be considered bold* -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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