ConvertColorTo

A simple and easy to use plugin that can convert various color strings to different formats. The goal was to create a simple and flexible API that required no 3rd party dependencies.

Quick Usage Reference

Given a line like this, with the cursor anywhere on it

background-color: rgb(241, 23, 102);

simply perform

:ConvertColorTo hex

and you'll get this:

background-color: #f11766;

You can also optionally make a visual selection of the color value, and execute:

:'<,'>ConvertColorTo hex

Currently supported color formats are:

• hex -> #001122
• hexa -> #00112233
• hex_num -> 0x001122
• rgb -> rgb(0, 100, 200)
• rgb_int -> rgb(0, 100, 200)
• rgb_float -> rgb(0.1, 0.2, 0.3)
• rgba -> rgba(0, 100, 200, 0.3)
• hsl -> hsl(200, 20%, 10%)
• hsla -> hsla(100, 20%, 30%, 0.2)

Protip: The plugin will always attempt to maintain a transparency value if it exists in the original color (i.e. using type rgb on an hsla, will actually convert it to rgba automatically). However, if you are converting a color that does not have a transparency, but specify a type with transparency, the plugin will add a transparency of 1.

Another Protip: You can use this plugin as a simple text formatter if you apply the same type as the source color.

Detailed Usage

There are a couple different ways to use the plugin.

Via the commandline:

:ConvertColorTo [type] [color_string]
:'<,'>ConvertColorTo [type]

Via the expression register:

=ConvertColorTo('[type]', '[color_string]')
:put =ConverColorTo('[type]', '[color_string]')

Or if you just want to see an echo of the color conversion:

:call ConvertColorTo('[type]', '[color_string]')

Both type and color are optional.

type is simply one of the above listed color formats. If no format is specified then the plugin will attempt to convert the color to hex. If it's already hex then it will convert to rgb instead. type must be specified if you want to manually pass in a color_string. If it becomes annoying I may fix this later...

color_string is only needed if you don't have a text selection or an existing color on the current line. It's simply a color in any supported format to convert.

Configuration

You can specify a global or local config when using rgb or rgba to be either int (default) or float

let g:convert_color_default_rgb = 'float'
let b:convert_color_default_rgb = 'int'

Minor Philosophical Things

While this plugin does some basic validation of the color formats, it is by no means a perfect and fully accurate parser. There are cases where you could potentially specify invalid strings and they might get converted or vice versa, valid strings that don't get detected properly. I did this mostly because I just didn't care at the time, it should work 99% of the time for the common cases.

With that said, if you do find a bug or what not, please let me know, maybe it's easy to patch and we can improve the plugin.

License

MIT License