On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 10:17:54 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > Alain D D Williams wrote: > > I read/write email using mutt in a mate terminal. It is black & white. If I > > ssh > > in from my laptop it is yellow & black (I cannot remember why I set it up > > like > > that). > > For about a decade, I color-coded the default text in my > terminals to indicate where I was SSHd in. (I tended to have a > dozen terminal windows open at once.) > > These days I color-code the bash prompt, instead.
Same here: coloured bash prompt, with reverse video for root. I colour the status bar in mutt, the mode-line in emacs, and the hotkey (bottom) line in mc. I also colour the menu (top) line in mc differently when one panel is displaying a remote host. FWIW. Cheers, David.
