Bat: Line numbers illegible

[crunchyintheory]

Recently installed this on a Kubuntu system using Konsole with a slightly transparent window background.

I've tried other themes but none of them change the color of the line numbers. Would it be possible to change them separately or just include brighter line number colors in certain themes?

[sharkdp]

Thank you for the feedback.

I have recently changed bat to use the gutterForeground color for line numbers and the grid. This seems to be consistent with what Sublime Text does. However, it is only now that I realize that none of the included color schemes actually defines this color. In this case, bat will use ANSI color 238 (#444444) as a fallback - which is hardly visible on your background color.

You can edit one of the existing themes and add gutterForeground in the <key>settings</key> part:

<key>gutterForeground</key>
<string>#777777</string>

Finally, you would need copy the modified theme to bats config folder and run bat cache --init (see Adding new themes).

However, it would be great if we could change bat to use a line-number color that is defined in more of the themes, but I'm not sure which one would work (maybe invisibles?).

[sharkdp]

Another option is to use a theme that actually defines this color like OneHalfDark.

[crunchyintheory]

Thanks, OneHalfDark works for me!

[mitnk]

While line numbers with theme OneHalfDark works in dark background terminal. But why this is not the default setting in bat?

[sharkdp]

Because this is only a problem on some (terminal) color schemes. The current default works great in other terminals.

[fdcds]

Will the other themes shipped with bat receive the gutterForeground colour in a future release of bat?

[fdcds]

I have recently changed bat to use the gutterForeground color for line numbers and the grid. This seems to be consistent with what Sublime Text does. However, it is only now that I realize that none of the included color schemes actually defines this color. In this case, bat will use ANSI color 238 (#444444) as a fallback - which is hardly visible on your background color.

You can edit one of the existing themes and add gutterForeground in the <key>settings</key> part:

<key>gutterForeground</key>
<string>#777777</string>

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/sublime-monokai-extended/blob/0ca4e75291515c4d47e2d455e598e03e0dc53745/Monokai%20Extended.tmTheme defines:

  <key>gutterSettings</key>
  <dict>
    <key>background</key>
    <string>#073642</string>
    <key>divider</key>
    <string>#586e75</string>
    <key>foreground</key>
    <string>#839496</string>
    <key>selectionBackground</key>
    <string>#586e75</string>
    <key>selectionForeground</key>
    <string>#a6e22e</string>
  </dict>

Copying gutterSettings.foreground to settings.settings.gutterForeground looks reasonably well. :)

Could gutterSettings.foreground be used by bat directly?

[sharkdp]

I don't know by heart. We would have to try that for the available schemes and do some research what is actually meant by those entries.