MH & nmh: Colorizing Header Fields
Author: Brent B. Welch

# Colorizing Header Fields

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A set of resources specifies colors and other font attributes of a message header.

m_tagnames
  This is a list of mail header fields which have special looks when displayed in the message area. For each tagname, you should define another resource named m_`tagname` (for example, m_subject). This m_`tagname` resource has the text tag configuration options for its header field. You'll find the tag configuration options in the manual page for the Tk text widget. Two special tagnames are used for defaults if there isn't a more specific matching tag name: "default" applies to displayed fields and "hidden" applies to hidden fields (fields that have been scrolled off the top).

For example, here's what I have in my ~/.exmh-defaults file:

    *m_tagnames:            hidden subject from x-filters-matched
    *m_hidden:              -font 6x10
    *m_default:             -foreground black
    *m_subject:             -foreground blue
    *m_x-filters-matched:   -foreground blue
    *m_from:                -foreground "medium sea green"

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(This section was written by Brent Welch.)
Last change $Date: 1999/10/10 05:14:05 $

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