color problem (1/2)
(previously posted to comp.mail.mutt)
i'm a power user in pine and considering converting to mutt.
in pine i can force the display to use 16 colors and i have a lot of
things using those colors.
in mutt, i seem to have 16 colors but not the way i want them... i seem to
have 8 "normal" colors and another 8 "bright" colors.
example line from my ~/.muttrc is this: colorindicatorbrightyellowyellow
which produces this:
http://atom.smasher.org/tmp/mutt-color.png
"brightyellow" is not only bold, but it's a different color than "yellow",
despite what the DOCs say:
foreground can optionally be prefixed with the keyword bright to
make the foreground color boldfaced (e.g., brightred).
anyway... how can i get the "brightyellow" color (and other bright colors)
without the bold? the same thing happens with all of the colors... bright*
makes it bold AND changes the color. i want to get the brighter colors
(which i find easier to read) but not bold (which i find makes it harder
to read).
this shot:
http://atom.smasher.org/tmp/color.png
shows the colors that i should have.
i've tried setting TERM to different values and setting/unsetting
COLORTERM and i keep getting the same results.
i've also tried colorX but any "X" > 7 causes a notice on startup that the
color is not supported.
this is Mutt 1.4.2.1i
...atom
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