Insufficient contrast between selection and highlight

[joeldrapper]

With my eyes, I can’t tell the difference, at a glance, between selected text and highlighted symbols. In this screenshot, for example, the third node is selected, while the other four are just highlighted.

This is particularly confusing when trying to work with multiple cursors.

Here’s a closer look. In this screenshot opt is selected, while the rest of the word options is just highlighted because it’s the active symbol.

[tecandrew]

@joeldrapper this is a more of a problem with Zed editor itself and have brought this up before 😅

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/8316

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7448

I found some themes are better at it than others, but it's still low-contrast.

[joeldrapper]

Oh that’s interesting. I thought there was a way to specify the selection colour. Some themes have a selection color that's different from the active symbol highlight color.

[tecandrew]

Zed has some interesting behaviors with what is affected by tweaking these parameters. I'll see if I could find a good middle ground solution for keeping the Catppuccin colors and adjusting for better standout contrast.

I'm finding that VS Code overrides the current auto-select with the "selection highlight" color, while Zed just maintains the read_background param and not accommodate for selection color.

[tecandrew]

Zed Ayu Dark (default theme) seems to have a good solution, so I'll replicate this behavior

• auto-selection color is darker player1 selection color
• "write_background" color is something grey