Git-delta auto dark mode

#README.md

Dark Mode Tips

This gist has various tips to get your CLI tools aware of the appaerance of the system. If you terminal changes its background color from light to dark during late hours it is quite inconvenient to have the wrong colorschemes.

Install dark-mode-cli

You can either install it with Homebrew or with npm

Homebrew

brew install dark-mode

npm

npm install -g dark-mode-cli

Install delta

brew install git-delta

.gitconfig

[core]
  pager = delta
  
[delta]
  side-by-side = true

.vimrc

let darkModeStatus=system("dark-mode status")

if darkModeStatus =~ "off"
  set bg=light
else
  set bg=dark
endif

delta

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ "$(dark-mode status)" = "off" ]
then
  /usr/local/bin/delta --light "$@"
else
  /usr/local/bin/delta --dark "$@"
fi