Mutt colors parse error while reading apt-logs

[Fernando Miguel]

Mutt colours parse error while reading apt-logs

I have the following in /etc/Muttrc.d/colors.rc

# colors
color quoted green black

But while reading and apt-log email the line started by '#', the line colour is green.

xorg-server (2:1.4.99.906-1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low
  * Add 130_fedora_call_switchcorekeyboard.patch, a hack to fix fd.o bug
    #16364. Breaks if the first hotplugged keyboard is not the wanted
    keyboard.

I guess its because of the colors.rc line, but its a bad choice, since the its just a line break.

Mutt 1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
 affects ubuntu/mutt

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[Andrew McCarthy (andrewmccarthy)]

The "quoted" color highlighting is controlled by the quote_regexp option. This option defines the pattern that's considered a quoted line, and defaults to "^([ \t]*[|>:}#])+", which means a line starting with any amount of whitespace followed by any of these characters: |>:}#

If you want to ignore # as a possible quote character, then set quote_regexp to "^([ \t]*[|>:}])+", which will fix this particular instance. Without trying to make mutt intelligent, I'm not sure how it could tell the difference between a line that *is* a quote, and one that looks *just like* a quote. :)

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

I know its not easy! but still its a bug.
mabe we can mark this as a wishbug and summit upstream, in the chance of getting a smarter mutt?

[YoBoY (yoboy-leguesh)]

This is still an issue for you? Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

its a wishbug!
its going to be here for ever... ehe

from what i've read else where this is Wont Fix... still i'll leave it at New