0x64746b/alot — comment on commit f2c8b32089de283dd560aaae570d28f6f2ab83a2
File: alot/settings.py line 176
By 0x64746b:

Uh, *now* I see! Thx for the clarification. The more important I consider this check to be.

One *might* consider returning an empty dict in that case, assuming the user wanted to disable highlighting. Then again, if there are `thread_highlight_components` specified, maybe he tried to configure highlighting and just forgot to give that key.

I still tend to believe that enforcing the presence of that key on average is the straightest, least ambiguous approach.