Avoid using white color in REPL #372
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It's not visible on white background terminals.
| bright_blue: "\x1b[34;1m", | ||
| bright_magenta: "\x1b[35;1m", | ||
| bright_cyan: "\x1b[36;1m", | ||
| bright_white: "\x1b[37;1m", |
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You should not remove the color definitions, just change the style definitions.
At some point it should be possible to customize the styles so the colors should all be defined.
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I'll revert that change.
| 'keyword': 'bright_magenta', | ||
| 'function': 'bright_yellow', | ||
| 'type': 'bright_magenta', |
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keywords should not be the same color as types.
is there a way to test the terminal default color so we can use black on a white background for the default style?
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I don't know if that is possible at all. I made the choice based on how VSCode seems to color stuff. No strong opinion, so I'm open to suggestions!
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There are 2 ways to retrieve the default colors from the terminal:
- using the
COLORFGBGenvironment variable which might be maintained to reflect the terminal settings. Editors such asvimsupposedly use this to adjust their color settings. This is the easiest. - using OSC escape sequences: sending
\e]11;?\ato the terminal should trigger a terminal response for the default background color. iTerm2 sends me this:\e]11;rgb:0000/0000/0000\afor a black background. Similarly,\e]10;?\aresponds with the foreground color, namely\e]10;rgb:c7f1/c7f1/c7f1\ain may case for a medium grey.
I am going to implement the first method along with VSCode default colors for a light theme.
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Cool, shall I drop this then?
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Cool, shall I drop this then?
I just filed PR #383 with dark and light selectable themes and autoselect the light scheme if the terminal background is not black, based on the COLORFGBG environment variable. So I guess you can drop this one.
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It's not visible on white background terminals.
New colors: