Coloring diffs when reading mail in Mutt
This is fairly obvious in theory, but it’s the kind of thing you don’t always think about: when receiving patches via e-mail, it’s possible to have Mutt directly color them as vim or colordiff(1) does. I have this:
% grep rc_diff ~/.muttrc
macro index \e,sd ":source ~/.mutt/rc_diff\n" "source ~/.mutt/rc_diff"
macro pager \e,sd ":source ~/.mutt/rc_diff\n" "source ~/.mutt/rc_diff"
% cat ~/.mutt/rc_diff
color body brightblue default '^\+.*'
color body brightred default '^-.*'
color body brightgreen default '^(---|\+\+\+) .*'
color body brightyellow default '^@@ .*'
Update: In case there was some confusion, the rc_diff snippet above is meant to be sourced only when there’s a mail with a patch, otherwise it’ll highlight parts of normail email too. The way to disable again, though, is quitting Mutt...