This is a color scheme for your terminal, suitable to use as your LS_COLORS
environment variable. Most of the colors use the extended color map, described
in the ECMA-48 document; in other words, you'll need a terminal with
capabilities of displaying 256 colors to take advantage of this.
Some 500+ different filetypes/extensions are supported.
The color scheme of the original repo seemed somewhat random and lacking an overall color philosophy. I decided to rewrite the complete color scheme based on this set of categories:
| FILE TYPES | COLOR/FORMATTING |
|---|---|
| Directories | Bold light blue |
| Symlinks | Bold gray (bold italics pink is orphaned) |
| System files | Underlined red |
| Diff/Patch | Bright pink (italics/bold) |
| Files to ignore | Dark gray |
| Text | Yellow |
| Markdown | Orange |
| HTML-type files | Brown |
| Office-type files | Burgundy-purple |
| PDF and related | Red-purple |
| Media files/images | Purple |
| Programming related | Blue |
| Binaries | Bright cyan |
| Executables | Green |
| Other file types | White |
File types within each category can have different shades of that color.
I use this as a sensible alias for ls in my .zshrc:
alias ls='ls --color=always -FH --group-directories-first'
For a consistent color experience between your command line and a curses file manager, you may want to take a look at RTFM.
There is also a corresponding Ranger color scheme included isene.py. This covers only the categories above (no shading of files within a category - with a couple of exceptions) and not all the possible filetypes of the LS_COLORS provided. This will suffice until the Ranger project provides a color scheme that simply parses LS_COLORS instead. To use the isene.py Ranger color scheme, set it in your ranger/rc.conf.
I have also included a linemode plugin for ranger ranger/plugin_linemode.py. Drop this file into your ~/.config/ranger/plugins/ directory and add this line to your ranger rc.conf:
default_linemode classify
Clone this repo and run the install script install.sh
Users of the fish shell should source the resulting lscolors.csh file in their config.fish.
Here's a screenshot with three terminals with ranger running in the left terminal and the other two showing the output of ls:
See the original repo.