Inkpot Theme for Mutt

I am using Mutt as my e-mail client of choice, and I have done that ever since I started using Unix. I have for many months been annoyed by the very ugly theme that I created back when I was around 13, but I have never bothered spending a few minutes on making something shiny that did not look too ugly.

Highly inspired by Ciaran’s Vim theme, Inkpot, I decided to create a theme for Mutt.

For rxvt-unicode users:

color   attachment  color30 color80
color   header      color10 color80 "^(From|Subject|cc|date|To|X-Spam-Level|User-Agent|X-Mailer):"
color   signature   color39 color80
color   tree        color26 color80
color   message     color26 color80
color   status      color85 color81
color   normal      color78 color80
color   error       color79 color64
color   indicator   color80 color73
color   markers     color26 color80
color   index       color64 color80 ~D
color   index       color64 color80 ~F
color   index       color30 color80 ~T
color   tilde       color80 color80
color   body        color10 color80 "(http|https|ftp|news|telnet|finger|irc)://[^ \">\t\r\n]*"
color   body        color10 color80 "mailto:[-a-z_0-9.]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+"
color   body        color26 color80 "[;:=][-][)/(|]"
color   quoted      color52 color80
color   quoted1     color22 color80
color   quoted2     color71 color80

For xterm-256color users (submitted by Henrik Stuart):

color   attachment  color61 color232
color   header      color10 color232 "^(From|Subject|cc|date|To|X-Spam-Level|User-Agent|X-Mailer):"
color   signature   color63 color232
color   tree        color63 color232
color   message     color37 color232
color   status      color247 color235
color   normal      color229 color232
color   error       color231 color196
color   indicator   color232 color215
color   markers     color37 color232
color   index       color196 color232 ~D
color   index       color196 color232 ~F
color   index       color49 color232 ~T
color   tilde       color63 color232
color   body        color10 color232 "(http|https|ftp|news|telnet|finger|irc)://[^ \">\t\r\n]*"
color   body        color10 color232 "mailto:[-a-z_0-9.]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+"
color   body        color37 color232 "[;:=][-][)/(|]"
color   quoted      color130 color232
color   quoted1     color25 color232
color   quoted2     color207 color232

Article published on August 3, 2008. Tagged in Free Software, Mutt, and Vim. If you would like to contact me with comments about this article, please write me an email.