diff --git a/muttrc b/muttrc
index 282fef2..7234a23 100644
--- a/muttrc
+++ b/muttrc
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ color header red black "X-Spam-Status: YES"
 color header brightwhite black "X-Spam-Level:"
 color header red black "X-Virus-Scan:.*FOUND"
 color header brightwhite black "X-Greylist:"
-color status brightwhite red                        # color the status bar
+color status brightwhite green                        # color the status bar
 color body brightcyan default "(http|https|ftp|mailto|telnet|ssh)://[^ ]+"
 
 ## folders
diff --git a/vimrc b/vimrc
index 75d236f..0858f76 100644
--- a/vimrc
+++ b/vimrc
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ set showcmd             " Show partial command in status line.
 set ignorecase          " Case insensitive searching.
 set smartcase           " Smart case matching.
 set autowrite           " Save before switching buffers.
+set number
 
 au BufNewFile,BufRead *.txt set ft=text
 au FileType text set tw=72 spell spelllang=en_us nonumber