Interactive TUI mode does not utilize terminal colors

[m-kru]

It would be nice if cs could respect terminal colors in interactive TUI mode.

[boyter]

What colours are you intending? Syntax highlighted for code or some such?

Can you provide an example of what you are expecting? Do you have an example library that would be possible to use for this?

[m-kru]

I mean all colors.

I do not have much time at the moment, but there must be some way to read terminal colors in the application.

[boyter]

Ah gotcha. Yes that seems like something useful.

I have no idea how to go about doing this, but if I find anything ill post it here.

[DannyBen]

I am also interested in this. I don't care about terminal colors or not, but the fact that running cs switches to a dark theme makes it unusable to me. Can't it just use the standard ANSI colors - then it will work for everybody as is, in their own colors. And of course, avoid setting any background color, to retain the user's choice.

I really want to use cs, as I am searching code many times a day - but this is a hard show stopper...

[boyter]

@DannyBen Sorry what do you mean by switching to a dark mode? Can you provide a screenshot of what you have before to help me see what you mean.

[DannyBen]

This is my normal screen (in this case two tmux panels, top and bottom, to better emphasize the problem)

This is how it looks when I start cs

[boyter]

Yeah thats fairly annoying. I didn't actually tweak anything out of the box, instead using the defaults from https://github.com/rivo/tview

I might have to have a look over there and see if there is a way to respect what is being provided.

[boyter]

rivo/tview#859

[boyter]

Thanks. Ill be going through all of this in the next few days.

Id love to get this all out of the box for people if possible, but if I have to resort to some canned themes I am prepared to do so.

[boyter]

@digitallyserviced I enjoy learning new things so while its a lot its not that much of a worry... other than time.

What you have put there is a great start for me to start playing around with. Although I am going to need assistance from a lot of people to get this right methinks... or setup a heap of styles so I can verify I get most of it right. Perhaps both.

[whatisaphone]

I tried TCELL_TRUECOLOR=disable, and on my setup at least it seems to fix the foreground colors, but the background is still hardcoded to black... so on a light theme you get black-on-black 😅

I agree with previous posts--the right solution is to not set a background color at all, and use foreground colors from the 16 ANSI colors. Whatever terminal/color lib you're using seems too clever by half.

In the meantime, one workaround is setting $TERM to something that doesn't support colors at all:

TERM=vt100 cs

[boyter]

I may just re-implement using https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea which appears to handle this a lot better.

[whatisaphone]

I tried running bubbletea/examples/list-default and it looks a lot better on my snowflake light theme setup!

By default it seems to use true color for some things and ANSI colors for others. And of course on my setup the ANSI colors are very readable, while the true colors are just okay. Luckily it can be configured.