James Endres Howell1d ago

(setopt shr-use-colors nil)

THIS SETTING COMPLETELY FIXES what has been by far my biggest annoyance with mu4e. Namely the ghastly clash of awful foreground and background colors in messages that can only be rendered as HTML.

Thanks to Wouter Groeneveld for this tip and many other improvements to mu4e!

https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/01/customizing-the-emacs-email-experience-with-mu4e/

#emacs #mu4e #html #email

Customizing The Emacs Email Experience With Mu4e

You all knew this was coming. After thinking about my email workflow I had to put it to practice. …

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Show threadλzyd1d ago
@jameshowell It also makes EWW a lot more usable. Personally I think nil should be the default. You might also want to play with shr-use-fonts.
Show threadJames Endres Howell22h ago
@zyd #emacs #mu4e
Show threadλzyd
@jameshowell I'm 28 but yeah, makes sense that as a side effect of prolonged Emacs usage it ages you. Emacs for mail, irc, everything.
Mar 25 at 9:15pmWeb
Show threadJames Endres Howell22h ago

@zyd Wrong way round, my young friend! Emacs keeps us young!

Email, like code, is meant to be written and read in fixed-width faces. If you believe that too, well, maybe you have been unnaturally aged