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- Color files for MultiMail
- =========================
-
- New in version 0.19, 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.)
-
- As of version 0.20, 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. :-)
-
- ingo.col - Approximately the color scheme used by Ingo Brueckl in
- his own version of MultiMail. It resembles the version
- 0.1 color scheme.
-
- 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.
-
- 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>.
-