[Gllug] [OT] Largest mailbox EVER!

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:57:49PM +0000, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:29:39PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> > > > Go and have a look at a man page on a plain ascii terminal, then on a
> > > > terminal that supports vt100 and tell me there isn't more information
> > > > on the vt100 terminal.
> > > 
> > > Not more information - it's just easier to read.
> > 
> > Bit of an academic argument anyway. If you have a recent version of
> > tin (for news) or other mail readers, then they'll turn *bold* into
> > actual bold text and /italic/ into italic and so on.
> 
> In case anyone wanted to know, a muttrc entry to do this (that works fairly
> well for me, including some less-common cases) looks like:
> 
> color body brightwhite black '(^|\ )[*][^\ ][^*]*[^\ ][*]([\ ,.?!;]|$)'
> 
> One can do similarly for /blum/ and _frub_, but only to colour them, not to
> underline or italicize them.

Works pretty well for me! Shame mutt doesn't support PCRE though.

Rich.

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