2008/135 Mail Utilities

[Danek Duvall]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:34:04PM -0500, Stephen Talley wrote:

> Mutt with s-lang adds flexibility when defining colors; namely, the
> keyword "default" may be used as a foreground or background argument
> to the "color" subcommand.  Useful for users who want mutt to retain
> the background color/pixmap of their terminal when it is run.

It does this with ncurses as well, which is how I always build my mutt.
I'd recommend doing that, but bringing in ncurses is a much bigger and
controversial project than bringing in s-lang, so until someone tackles
that, this is probably fine.

> That argument probably can extend to mutt as well.  It's command line
> has evolved quite stably in its lifetime.

Its config file, however, is more likely to bug people if it changes
incompatibly, and it hasn't been as stable.  The developers generally do a
good job of not making radical change here, and certainly not insensible
change, but a few variables have gotten renamed over the years.  According
to the changelog, it's been a couple of years since that's happened, and if
we really care, preserving the variable synonyms longer than they do looks
like it's a low-cost operation.  Uncommitted seems like it'd be easy for
this, not sure about Committed.

Danek