[1335] in BarnOwl Developers
Re: noticed about barnowl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Elhage)
Thu Oct 29 18:15:31 2009
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 16:34:26 -0400
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
To: Joshua Pollack <jp@mit.edu>
Cc: barnowl-dev@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20090309195254.GC17058@mit.edu>
I, uh, didn't actually know about that variable, or if I did I had
forgotten about it. That's a definite bug. I'll look into it soon.
- Nelson
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 03:52:54PM -0400, Joshua Pollack wrote:
> I have had my own .owlconf ever since kretch showed me it was possible to
> write one, but no, it doesn't have a 'weird style', AFAIK. It does contain a
> line to "set colorztext off", as I don't like other people overriding colors
> in my zephyrs. It seems that when I remove that line, the text dissappears.
> Has the colorztext variable been deprecated in favor of a different method?
>
> Thanks,
> Joshua
>
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 03:47:40PM -0400, Nelson Elhage wrote:
> > [adding barnowl-dev to the Cc]
> >
> > The smartnarrow thing is intentional, but the fact that some users
> > don't like it is known and I believe geofft has a patch to make it
> > customizable I should take a look at.
> >
> > As for the zsig thing, do you have a custom .owlconf with a weird
> > style or something? We do add that text to the zsig to deal with
> > people with improperly terminated color zsigs, but it should be
> > properly parsed by barnowl and not actually display.
> >
> > - Nelson
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 03:38:28PM -0400, Joshua Pollack wrote:
> > > So far, I've noticed two things. There might be more, but I'm unlikely to
> > > remember this when it's not on my mind.
> > >
> > > All zsigs seem to end in "@color[default]", and, using M-n to run 'view' seems
> > > to limit to both a class name, as well as severl levels of depth of the class
> > > name with '.d' appended and 'un' prepended to it. I'm running barnowl from
> > > debian testing next to owl 2.1.11 for comparison.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Joshua