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- Color files for MultiMail
- =========================
-
- The color file lets you specify the colors used by MultiMail (on color
- terminals). When you run MultiMail for the first time, the file "colors"
- will be automatically generated in the "mmail" directory, listing the
- default colors.
-
- The format for each line is "ItemName: <foreground>, <background>,
- <attribute>", where foreground and background are one of Black, Blue,
- Green, Cyan, Red, Magenta, Yellow, or White, and the attribute may be Bold
- or Reverse. Only the first three letters are actually checked, and case
- is not signifigant.
-
- If no color for a given ItemName is defined, the default will be used.
- Lines beginning with '#' are commented out.
-
- "Bold" is mainly used to indicate a bright foreground color, but may also
- (or alternatively) cause actual boldfacing on some terminals (like xterm).
- "Reverse" is for the benefit of monochrome terminals (xterm again), so
- that highlights still show up there. (Yes, color schemes are fairly
- useless on a monochrome terminal; but with care, this feature lets you set
- up the color file once, so you can use MultiMail from both color and mono
- terminals without having to change anything.)
-
- You can omit the foreground and background colors, as well as the
- attribute. (If only one color is specified, it's taken as the foreground
- color.) If omitted, the last-defined foreground or background color is
- used. (Note that this does NOT work for the attribute, which is reset with
- each color. So, if you have an item with the Bold attribute, and want the
- next item to be exactly the same, you still have to specify "Bold".) I did
- this because color schemes tend to have a lot of repeated values,
- especially for the background color. See the included color schemes for
- examples.
-
- Also note that an ItemName with no values after it is NOT the same as an
- ItemName that's commented out or removed. In the first case, the colors
- will default to those defined for the previous item. In the second case,
- the colors used will be the default colors for that item (as found in
- tradit.col, or the autogenerated "colors" file).
-
- You can switch between color schemes by changing the "ColorFile" keyword
- in your .mmailrc to point to a new file. The example color files included
- here are:
-
- aqua.col - This is the first color scheme I've made for myself, and
- it's the one I'm using now. It's based on blue and cyan,
- with white backgrounds for black text, and just a hint of
- red. :-)
-
- gilmore.col - Donated by Gary Gilmore.
-
- holger2.col - Donated by Holger Granholm.
-
- ingo.col - Approximately the color scheme used by Ingo Brueckl in
- his own version of MultiMail. It resembles the version
- 0.1 color scheme.
-
- tonys.col - Donated by Tony Summerfelt.
-
- toutant.col - Donated by David Toutant.
-
- tradit.col - The standard color scheme since version 0.2, based on the
- version 0.1 scheme, with signifigant alterations by John
- Zero. Like the others (except aqua), it's rather day-glo
- for my taste, so I'll probably change the default colors
- in a future version. (This file will remain available.)
- In fact, I just changed *one*: the REPLY area line, which
- was hard to see as dark yellow, is now dark green.
-
- tuukka.col - A monochrome scheme, donated by Tuukka Lehtinen.
-
- ver01.col - Approximately, the original color scheme found in the
- version 0.1 series, as devised by Kolossvary Tamas. (Some
- things don't quite translate, due to differences in the
- screen layout.)
-
- I welcome additonal color schemes. If you have an interesting one, please
- send it to <wmcbrine@clark.net>.
-