Re: highlighting urls ???
On 2004-01-10, Michael D Schleif <mds@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Gary Johnson <garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2004:01:10:10:32:30-0800] scribed:
> > So for your simple example, I think this will work:
> >
> > color body brightred default [][a-zA-Z0-9]+
>
> OK, bizarre as it is, that color command works.
>
> However, the following:
>
> color body brightblue default
> (https?|ftp)://[][\-\.\,\;=/%~_:?\#a-zA-Z0-9&+]+
>
> produces the following mutt startup error:
>
> Error in /home/mds/.muttrc, line 500: Invalid range end
> source: errors in /home/mds/.muttrc
>
> And, the following:
>
> color body brightblue default
> (https?|ftp)://[][\.\,\;=/%~_:?\#a-zA-Z0-9&+-]+
>
> produces the following mutt startup error:
>
> Error in /home/mds/.muttrc, line 500: Unmatched [ or [^
> source: errors in /home/mds/.muttrc
>
> What am I missing?
I don't know for sure. To be honest, getting any mutt regular
expression to work is often a matter of trial and error for me. I
usually surround them with single quotes, though, and doing so has
solved a lot of problems for me before. I just tried executing your
second example,
color body brightblue default
(https?|ftp)://[][\.\,\;=/%~_:?\#a-zA-Z0-9&+-]+
at the command line and did get an error. Then I edited it to add
the single quotes,
color body brightblue default
'(https?|ftp)://[][\.\,\;=/%~_:?\#a-zA-Z0-9&+-]+'
and mutt accepted it. Further, the URLs in the one message I opened
appeared to be colored correctly.
My 5-seconds-of-thought guess is that without the quotes, the ';'
was interpreted by mutt as the end of the color command.
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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