Setting to change text or text color in menus?

[nickajeg]

I don't know if this is the right forum for setting questions, but I'm wondering if I can change the text or text color of the item category headings in the inventory. It's annoying to read them when they're a dark blue color, so I'm wondering if I can either change their colors, or at least add the item character to the front of them so it's easier to dig through my inventory.

I don't really want to change the color in my ssh client, because I like that dark blue in the abyss and such. I was thinking about making a text substitution "?scroll" for "scroll/s" etc. globally, but I couldn't remember how to do that, and it would be more annoying anyways.

Basically I want to know if there's something I can do in the settings file to go from

  Code:

Wands<-------dark blue
 x - a wand of fire {zapped: 1}
Comestibles
 m - a royal jelly
Scrolls
 q - 3 scrolls of remove curse


to

  Code:

/Wands <------some really bright color
 x - a wand of fire {zapped: 1}
%Comestibles
 m - a royal jelly
?Scrolls
 q - 3 scrolls of remove curse


[nickajeg]

Nevermind I found it. I don't know how I overlooked that section of options guide.

[rchandra]

Was it setting menu_colour += inventory|drop:^Wands$:cyan or such, or something else?
(not that this really applies here, but there's nothing more annoying than googling a weird problem, finding a message from somebody with the same problem, and then their next message is "I solved it, nevermind" without saying how)

[nickajeg]

I spoke too soon. I really thought that
"menu_colour += inventory:cyan:^(Scrolls|Armour|Wands|Potions|Hand Weapons|Comestibles|Jewellery)"
was going to work. Maybe menu_colour only works on items? I'm pretty sure my regex is right. Anyone know the details of menu_colour?

[crate]

You need to make sure that you're not matching a different menu_colour regex first. Unless you clear the defaults, you cannot use "+=" to override them; you need to use "^="

[nickajeg]

Hmm. Is there something basic I'm missing about editing the init file?

I put "menu_colour ^= inventory:cyan:^(Scrolls|Armour|Wands|Potions|Hand Weapons|Comestibles|Jewellery)" right at the beginning and no luck. I've also tried a wide variety of different regex's. If I do "menu_colour ^= inventory:cyan:scroll" then it will change any line with "scroll" in it to cyan, but try as I may, I can't figure out how to affect the category headings.

[nickajeg]

bah, word on IRC is that it can't be done. Maybe I'll make a feature request or something.