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Template for Fish shell themes. This takes the output of `fish_config theme choose None; fish_config theme dump`, groups the variables, and adds the variable descriptions from the documentation as inline comments.
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| # name: 'Replace Me' | |
| # preferred_background: white | |
| # References: | |
| # - <https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/fish_config.html#theme-files> | |
| # - <https://fishshell.com/docs/current/interactive.html#syntax-highlighting> | |
| # | |
| # SYNTAX | |
| # | |
| # default color | |
| fish_color_normal normal | |
| # commands like echo | |
| fish_color_command | |
| # options starting with “-”, up to the first “--” parameter | |
| # falls back to $fish_color_param | |
| fish_color_option | |
| # Ordinary command parameters | |
| fish_color_param | |
| # Parameters that are filenames (if the file exists) | |
| # If it doesn't have a color, only modifiers, it adds those to the color that would otherwise be used, like $fish_color_param. | |
| # But if valid paths have a color, it uses that and adds in modifiers from the *other* color. | |
| fish_color_valid_path | |
| # parameter expansion operators like '*' and '~' | |
| fish_color_operator | |
| # quoted text like "abc" | |
| fish_color_quote | |
| # character escapes like '\n' and '\x70' | |
| fish_color_escape | |
| # keywords like 'if' | |
| # falls back on the $fish_color_command color if unset | |
| fish_color_keyword | |
| # IO redirections like >/dev/null | |
| fish_color_redirection | |
| # process separators like ; and & | |
| fish_color_end | |
| # comments like ‘# important’ | |
| fish_color_comment | |
| # syntax errors | |
| fish_color_error | |
| # autosuggestions (the proposed rest of a command) | |
| fish_color_autosuggestion brblack | |
| # the ‘^C’ indicator on a canceled command | |
| fish_color_cancel | |
| # ¿missing in documentation? | |
| fish_color_match | |
| # the current position in the history for commands like dirh and cdh | |
| fish_color_history_current | |
| # history search matches and selected pager items (background only) | |
| fish_color_search_match -r | |
| # selected text in vi visual mode | |
| fish_color_selection -r | |
| # | |
| # DEFAULT prompt | |
| # | |
| # the current working directory in the default prompt | |
| fish_color_cwd normal | |
| # the current working directory in the default prompt for the root user | |
| fish_color_cwd_root normal | |
| # the hostname in the default prompt | |
| fish_color_host normal | |
| # the hostname in the default prompt for remote sessions (like ssh) | |
| fish_color_host_remote yellow | |
| # the last command’s nonzero exit code in the default prompt | |
| fish_color_status normal | |
| # the username in the default prompt | |
| fish_color_user normal | |
| # | |
| # PAGER | |
| # | |
| # Presenting lists of choices, e.g. tables of completions. | |
| # Other than `fish_pager_color_progress`, there are 4 variables for 3 states: | |
| # {normal, secondary, selected} X {background, prefix, completion, description} | |
| # the progress bar at the bottom left corner | |
| fish_pager_color_progress brblack | |
| # NORMAL | |
| # the background color of a line | |
| fish_pager_color_background | |
| # the prefix string, i.e. the string that is to be completed | |
| fish_pager_color_prefix --underline | |
| # the completion itself, i.e. the proposed rest of the string | |
| fish_pager_color_completion normal | |
| # the completion description | |
| fish_pager_color_description brblack | |
| # SELECTED | |
| # background of the selected completion | |
| fish_pager_color_selected_background -r | |
| # prefix of the selected completion | |
| fish_pager_color_selected_prefix | |
| # suffix of the selected completion | |
| fish_pager_color_selected_completion | |
| # description of the selected completion | |
| fish_pager_color_selected_description | |
| # SECONDARY (alternating items) | |
| # background of every second unselected completion | |
| fish_pager_color_secondary_background | |
| # prefix of every second unselected completion | |
| fish_pager_color_secondary_prefix | |
| # suffix of every second unselected completion | |
| fish_pager_color_secondary_completion | |
| # description of every second unselected completion | |
| fish_pager_color_secondary_description |
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