Mutt Colors Started playing with colors again in mutt. I decided I wanted more color in my text-based email world. So, here's what I'm now using:

color attachment brightmagenta black  
color error brightwhite red   # errors yell at you in red
color hdrdefault red black   # headers
color indicator brightyellow magenta # currently selected message
color markers brightcyan black  # the + for wrapped pager lines
color message brightcyan black  # informational messages, not mail
color normal white black    # plain text
color quoted green black  # quoted text
color search brightgreen black # hilite search patterns in the pager
color signature red black    # signature (after "-- ") is red 
color status brightyellow blue # status bar is yellow *on blue*   
color tilde blue black  # ~'s after message body
color tree red black    # thread tree in index menu is magenta
color signature brightred black
color underline yellow black
color header cyan black ^(From|Subject): # Important headers
color body magenta black "(ftp|http)://[^ ]+"  # picks up URLs
color body magenta black [-a-z_0-9.]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+ 

#  Coloring quoted text - coloring the first 7 levels:
color quoted    cyan black
color quoted1   yellow black
color quoted2   red black
color quoted3   green black
color quoted4   cyan black
color quoted5   yellow black
color quoted6   red black
color quoted7   green black

#  Colorize smileys:  :-)  ;-)  :-/  :-(
color body  yellow black "[;:]-[)/(|]"
color body  yellow black "[;:][)/(|]"
color body  green black "[[:alpha:]]\+://[^ ]*"

color index brightyellow black ~N      # New
color index yellow black ~O              # Old
color index magenta black ~F
color index blue black ~T
color index red black ~D

Not only is adding the colors to quoting great, but now seeing bright yellow colored new email, red for deleted and non-bright yellow for old messages is a nicer visual cue to what's there. Not sure why I didn't do this much earlier! The coloring of smilies was just for fun. Posted by Kevin at August 29, 2003 11:32 AM