Bolding/underlining/strikethrough-ing text in mutt

Question

Is there any way to bold, strike, or underline text in mutt?

For instance, I currently have a couple of lines in my muttrc to make URLs and email addresses blue text on white background:

color body blue white regex

but I'd rather have that be blueunderline on white background. Likewise, I'd like to be able to bold unread mails in the index.

(dunno if it's relevant, but I'm using Ubuntu's mutt-patched, which is compiled with ncurses.)

Answer 1

You can do bold and underline but not strike through.

Replace "body" in

color body blue white regex

with "bold" and "underline" respectively.

Answer 2

You can get bold colors in an xterm by prefixing them with "bright". So in your case:

color body brightblue white *regex*

would make the blue text appear bold. Other terminals however (eterm, konsole) tend to actually make the text brighter instead of bold.