[MlMt] counter colors

[John Cooper]

John Doherty via mailmate wrote (at 7:50 PM on Monday, January 23, 2023):

> On Mon 2023-01-23 08:39 PM MST -0700, <mailmate2 at coopercontent.com> wrote:
>
>> Glenn Parker wrote (at 6:09 PM on Monday, January 23, 2023):
>>
>>> On 23 Jan 2023, at 19:13, John Cooper wrote:
>>>> But why bother with counters.txt and stdout and stdin? I would suggest quitting MailMate, making a copy of ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist, editing the copy directly in a reliable text editor such as BBEdit…
>>>
>>> You could try that, but you’ll quickly notice that com.freron.MailMate.plist is a binary file.
>>
>> That's not my experience.
>>
>> ![](https://i.ibb.co/X777KYG/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-7-35-21-PM.png)
>
> That's interesting:
>
> $ file ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist
> /Users/XXXX/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist: Apple binary property list
>
> $ sw_vers
> ProductName:	Mac OS X
> ProductVersion:	10.15.7
> BuildVersion:	19H2026
>
> $ man pl | grep old
>      pl can be used to check the syntax of old-style ASCII property list
>
> Do not know when "old-style ASCII" plists were superseded by "Apple binary."

I don't think it's a matter of when. I'm running MailMate 5925 on Mac OS 13.1. I think the "binary" designation is just a way to keep text programs from understanding the file as a text-based file. (BBEdit is one of the few programs that will attempt to open any file you ask it to.)