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Re: getting some color



                On May 27 2004, Cedric Bouvier wrote:
| I tried to play with ANSI escape sequences, but it doesn't work. The
| escape characters must be quoted somehow, either by ncurses or slang, or
| mutt. Maybe someone knows how to include an escape in a setting?
| 
| set status_format=" [Folder: %f] [Size: %L/%l] [Messages: %?M?%M/?%m%?n? 
total?%?n?, %n new?%?d?, %d deleted?%?t?, %t tagged?] +[Host: 
^[[00m^[[01;33m%h^[[00m] "

I have just tried with my bash color settings and the line I ended up
with:


set status_format=" [Folder: %f] [Size: %L/%l] [Messages: %?M?%M/?%m%?n? 
total?%?n?, %n new?%?d?, %d deleted?%?t?, %t tagged?] [ Host: %h ]

Displays the literal characters, not the resulting colors :( so sad...