Warning "brightdefault: no such color" about neomutt HOT 5 CLOSED

New color definition makes much more sense.
I replaced brightdefault default by bold default default in my config file to get the same result, i.e. bold :)

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Thanks a lot for those details! That makes sense. Thanks for doing the coloring restructuring. It sounds like it wasn't fun but will have some nice long-run benefits!

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I wonder if maybe this warning is correct and it just went unreported before?

Yes and yes.

default is transparent; bright-default can only be seen by people on hallucinogenic drugs :-)

Historically, defaults meaning wasn't clear.
It might:

• Do nothing (leaving the background colour)
• Set to the normal colour
• Be transparent (causing colours to be merged)

About 18 months ago, I made default mean transparent, everywhere.
The recent colour refactoring made the checking a bit stricter.

The foreground and background colours of an object are considered separately.
The priority order, from highest to lowest, is:

• Object colour
• normal colour
• Terminal colour

Where multiple objects are overlaid, one is given higher priority.
e.g. tree chars + indicator: indicator is on top

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Note, https://neomutt.org/guide/configuration says explicitly: "The value brightdefault is also valid"

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Well spotted, @lucrocha.
Fixed.

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