[neomutt-users] Fwd: Neomutt and OS X terminal: Can't get color to show in Terminal

[Russ Urquhart]

Sorry for the too long message. Here is my reply to Sven and the Neomutt group

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>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>> From: Russ Urquhart <russurquhart1 at verizon.net <mailto:russurquhart1 at verizon.net>>
>> Subject: Re: Neomutt and OS X terminal - name+version? palette? screenshots?
>> Date: February 27, 2018 at 10:10:44 PM CST
>> To: Sven Guckes <guckes at guckes.net <mailto:guckes at guckes.net>>
>> 
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>> 
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>>> On Feb 27, 2018, at 8:04 PM, Sven Guckes <guckes at guckes.net <mailto:guckes at guckes.net>> wrote:
>>>> I used macports to build the 20171215 version.
>>>> I built it with gdbm, gpgme, Lua, sasl, and slang.
>>> 
>>> you really want to test it all, right?
>>> 
>> 
>> Those were some defaults. But an initial test build.
>> 
>> 
>>>> In my neomuttrc I only altered two sections:
>>>> set pop_host="pops://russurquhart1:XXXXXXXXXX#1@pop.verizon.net <pops://russurquhart1:XXXXXXXXXX#1@pop.verizon.net>”
>>> 
>>> "0123456789", is it?
>> 
>> Yes, how’d you know! :)
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> And added colors I had defined in my muttrc. Here is a portion of those:
>>>> 
>>>> # text colors - general functions
>>>> color normal    white           default    # normal text
>>>> color status    brightgreen     blue       # status bar, last and first row
>>>> color search    brightyellow    red        # search results
>>>> color message   brightyellow    default    # information, message last row
>>>> color error     brightred       default    # error messages, last row
>>>> color markers   brightred       default    # the + sign at the start of broken lines
>>>> 
>>>> # text colors - message index and attachment menu (last match wins)
>>>> color indicator brightyellow    red        # current message selected
>>>> color index     brightyellow    default ~U # unread messages
>>>> color tree      brightred       default    # Threads' arrow
>>>> color index     brightwhite     default ~F # important messages    ! flag - command "F"
>>>> color index     yellow          default ~N # new messages          N flag - command "N"
>>>> color index     magenta         default ~p # Messages to me
>>>> color index     magenta         white   ~Q # Messages i replied to
>>> 
>>> dejavu.  pretty standard.
>>> 
>>>> I am running OS X 10.13.3
>>>> 
>>>> I believe that I also built this without slang and got the same results.
>>> 
>>> "results"?  no color? two colors (b+w)?
>>> some colors? 8/16/256/65536 (3/4/8/16bit)?
>> 
>> :) White text on a black background. 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> I hope this gives enough information.
>>> 
>>> err.. no.
>>> 
>>> "a portion" of a setup is just that: a portion.
>>> again.. the rest i'd have to guess.
>> 
>> Ok. :) Here is the rest,
>> 
>>  #color index   brightred       default '(~n 51-100)'           # score 51-100
>> 
>>  # text colors - pager
>>  color hdrdefault green         default                         # headers
>>  #color header  yellow          default "^(from|subject|to):"   # header from: subject: to:
>>  color bold     green           default                         # bold on mails' body
>>  color underline        yellow  default                         # underlined
>>  color attachment color5        default                         # attachments
>>  color signature        red     default                         # signature
>>  color tilde    blue            default                         # ~ at the end of messages
>>  color quoted   cyan            default                         # quoted text 1st level
>>  color quoted1  green           default                         # quoted text 2nd level
>>  color quoted2  magenta         default                         # quoted text 3rd level
>>  color quoted3  yellow          default
>>  color quoted4  red             default
>>  color quoted5  red             default
>>  color quoted6  red             default
>>  color quoted7  red             default
>>  color quoted8  red             default
>>  color quoted9  red             default
>>  #color body       brightgreen    default  "((ftp|http|https)://|(file|mailto|news):|www\\.)[-a-zA-Z0-9_.:]\
>>  #*[a-zA-Z0-9](/[^][{} \t\n\r\"<>()]*[^][{} \t\n\r\"<>().,:!])?/?"
>> 
>>  # Ronald J Kimball's url regexp. mutt-user 04/05/28
>>  color body     brightyellow    default "(https?|ftp|gopher|finger)://([^"'"'"' \t\r\n)>.,!?&]\
>>  |[.,!?][^"'"'"' \t\r\n)>.,!?&]|&([^g]|$)|&g([^t]|$)|&gt([^;]|$))+"
>>  color body       brightred      default  "[-a-zA-Z_0-9.+]+@[-a-zA-Z_0-9.]+"
>>  color body       green          default  "(^| )_[-a-zA-Z0-9_]+_[,.?]?[ \n]"
>> 
>>  # enphasized text
>>  color body     green           default         "[*][-[:alnum:]]+[*]"
>>  color body     green           default         "[ ]_[-[:alnum:]]+_([ ]|\.)"
>> 
>>  # vim: syntax=muttrc
>>   color error   brightred       default                         # error messagecolor message    brightyellow    default                         # information message
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> which terminal (name+version) are you using?
>>> are you using some color palette within?
>>> can you upload some screenshots?
>>> "what do you see? please show us!”
>> 
>> New  OS X terminal basic. Xterm-256 color 
>> 
>> I’ve attached a screenshot.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> So here is what I am seeing.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> we eventually will make you post your full setup
>>> (except passwords.. which we can guess, anyway ;)
>>> 
>> 
>> Thank you everyone! Sven I hope I get to see you and get you a beet or whatever is your favorite drink !
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Russ
>> 
>> 
>> 
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