
color
-----

   Usage: color display_element foreground background

   If your terminal supports ANSI color sequences, you can use the color
   command to define your own color scheme. You can assign a different
   color to almost every element on your screen.

   display_element can be one of these:

   article
          Regular text in the article body.

   author
          The author's name / email address in header overview.

   boldtext
          Text in the article body that is interpreted as *bold*.

   box
          Text inside of selection boxes (like the one you see when
          choosing a sorting mode).

   cursor
          The cursor you see in the group window and in header overview.

   date
          The article date in the header overview.

   description
          The group descriptions (taglines) in group window.

   error
          Error messages in the status line.

   frame
          The frame around selection boxes (see also: ``box'').

   from_myself
          The ``From:'' header line or realname in header overview, in
          case it contains your name.

   group
          The group names in group window.

   grouplens_display
          GroupLens scores.

   header_name
          The name of header lines in the pager (e.g. ``From:'').

   header_number
          The header number in header overview.

   headers
          The content of header lines in the pager.

   high_score
          The exclamation mark (``!'') used to denote high scoring
          articles in header overview.

   italicstext
          Text in the article body that is interpreted as /italic/.

   menu
          The first line of your display. If mouse reporting is
          turned on, it contains a menu.

   menu_press
          A menu item while you click on it.

   message
          The messages and prompts in the bottom line of the screen.

   neg_score
          The subject / score of articles with a negative score value,
          depending on the setting of color_by_score.

   normal
          Everything that does not have its own color object.

   pos_score
          The subject / score of articles with a positive score value,
          depending on the setting of color_by_score.

   pgpsignature
          PGP signatures appended to the article body.

   quotes
          Quoted text in the article body. It is now possible to
          distinguish up to 8 levels of quoted material by using color
          objects ``quotes0'' to ``quotes7''.

   response_char
          The highlighted character you need to press if you want to make
          a selection (e.g. in ``[Y]es or [N]o?'').

   selection
          The ``cursor'' used in selection boxes (see also: ``box'').

   signature
          Signatures appended to the article body.

   status
          The status lines slrn displays.

   subject
          The subject in header overview.

   thread_number
          The number of articles in the thread (displayed in header
          overview next to collapsed threads).

   tilde
          The tilde displayed at the end of the article body.

   tree
          The thread tree drawn in the header overview.

   underlinetext
          Text in the article body that is interpreted as _underlined_.

   unread_subject
          Color for unread subjects. Please see the entry on
          highlight_unread_subjects for details.

   url
          Used to highlight URLs in the article body.

   verbatim
          Text in the article body enclosed by verbatim marks.

   verbatum
          Obsolete spelling of ``verbatim''.

   The foreground and background colors have to be set to one of the
   following strings:

     black                gray
     red                  brightred
     green                brightgreen
     brown                yellow
     blue                 brightblue
     magenta              brightmagenta
     cyan                 brightcyan
     lightgray            white

   Additionally, you can use the default foreground / background colors
   of your terminal via the keyword "default".

   Please note that the colors in the right column are all ``bright'' (or
   ``bold''). On many terminals, they can only be used for the
   foreground. If you think your terminal has more than 8 background
   colors, but slrn refuses to use them, you might need to chose a
   different terminfo entry. On modern xterms and rxvt, setting $TERM to
   xterm-16color should work.

   A sample color scheme (which simply sets the colors to their compile
   time default) can be found in the slrn.rc file that should have come
   with your slrn distribution.

-- 
(C) Matthias Friedrich <mafr@topmail.de> and Thomas Schultz <tststs@gmx.de>.
The complete manual can be found at <htp://slrn.sourceforge.net/manual/>.
