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Lucas8

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Registered: 2013-07-12

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Abook-muttgroups patches.

After using the abook-muttgroups package for some time, I have done two patches you may find useful :
- change_color : Allow you to change the definitions of colors. For example, if you add set color_blue=555555 to your abookrc, the blue color will be replaced by grey. It permits more flexibility in the appearance of your abook, but you are still limited to eight differents colors (black, red, green, yellow, blue, cyan, magenta, white), due to ncurses.
- line_color : Without this patch, when you set a background color on your list, the background color will only applie on the text. With it, the whole line will be coloured.

You can find them on my github. The master branch has the two patches applied. If you wan't only one, you can use the change_color and line_color branches. Finally, I've created a PKGBUILD for the aur, under the name of abook-colors.

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Franek

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Registered: 2010-05-16

Posts: 100

Re: Abook-muttgroups patches.

Hi Lucas8! This is not related to your color patches specifically, but to the original muttgroup patch, about which I am fairly confused and on which I cannot find any documentation: What does it do? How do I use it? I would be very glad to be able to manage groups/lists in abook, but having installed the patched version, I just don't see where to go from here.

From what I can gather from a glance at the patches and the manpage, it is at least possible to convert groups from mutt alias files to other formats on the command line. What I would like to have, though, is the groups showing up in the interactive mode of abook and, most importantly, as results for external queries with "abook --mutt-query" (since I mostly use abook for queries from a MUA (not mutt)). Do you know a way to achieve that?

Lucas8

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Registered: 2013-07-12

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Re: Abook-muttgroups patches.

Well, I don't really use these functionnalities, so I can't help you about your problem. I was most interested in the colors (I'm still quite a new user of abook and mutt). But from what I noticed, everything that there is in abook-muttgroups has been merged upstream, so you should try to get help on the official abook website and eventually on their mailing list.

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Franek

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Registered: 2010-05-16

Posts: 100

Re: Abook-muttgroups patches.

Thanks anyway! The only abook mailing list has the suffix "-devel", which is why I was hesitant to post there as a mere user (rather hoping you might happen to know how to manage groups in abook). But I guess they won't eat me for asking a question, so that's what I am going to try next.