changing evil state colors

[Luis-Henriquez-Perez]

How do change the default modal colors of evil telephone line faces? From reading the source code, it seems that telephone-line-modal-face is responsible for this returning the right face on modal changes. I'm not sure whether I need to overwrite the telephone-line-modal-face function to return the faces I want for mode or if I should overwrite the faces (telephone-line-evil-insert, telephone-line-evil-normal, etc.). I did look at the examples provided but I couldn't figure out a clear way to do this.

[dbordak]

Do you just want to change the colors? If so, yeah, overwrite/customize the faces.

I've been meaning to have an example of colorschemes but I never got around to that...

Emacs can have multiple color themes enabled at once, so you could write up a theme and enable that alongside whatever other color theme you use.

[Luis-Henriquez-Perez]

I wrote the code below this. But it isn't working. I tried calling telephone-line-evil-config before and after declaring the faces. I'm going to see if I can just use the customize option.

(use-package telephone-line
:config
  (progn
    (telephone-line-evil-config)
    (defface telephone-line-evil-insert
      '((t (:foreground "white" :background "forest green" :inherit mode-line-inactive)))
      :group 'telephone-line-evil)

   (defface telephone-line-evil-normal
     '((t (:foreground "white" :background "orange" :inherit mode-line-inactive)))
     :group 'telephone-line-evil)

   (defface telephone-line-evil-visual
     '((t (:foreground "white" :background "pink" :inherit mode-line-inactive)))
     :group 'telephone-line-evil)

  (defface telephone-line-evil-motion
    '((t (:foreground "white" :background "purple" :inherit mode-line-inactive)))
    :group 'telephone-line-evil)

 (defface telephone-line-evil-operator
   '((t (:foreground "white" :background "red" :inherit mode-line-inactive)))
   :group 'telephone-line-evil)))

[Luis-Henriquez-Perez]

Ah the customize option worked well thank you.

[dbordak]

That won't work because you're redefining faces that already exist. Customize will work since it's changing the values defined in telephone-line.el. If you want to make a theme, you can use custom-theme-set-faces

[Luis-Henriquez-Perez]

I went a while without a modeline then came back to telephone-line and revisited this issue. I managed to change the face colors using customize-faces. I think this is a better solution than custom-theme-set-faces, because custom-theme-set-faces requires an existing theme so that it can change the faces, so I'd have to create a whole theme to just change a few faces.

Anyway here is the code that solved the issue. It's important to note it must be used after (evil-mode 1) has been called or it will complain about evil state cursors not being defined.

(custom-set-faces
    `(telephone-line-evil-insert ((t (:foreground "black" :background ,(cadr evil-insert-state-cursor) :inherit telephone-line-evil)))) 
    `(telephone-line-evil-normal ((t (:foreground "black" :background ,(cadr evil-normal-state-cursor) :inherit telephone-line-evil))))
    `(telephone-line-evil-visual ((t (:foreground "black" :background ,(cadr evil-visual-state-cursor) :inherit telephone-line-evil))))
    `(telephone-line-evil-replace ((t (:foreground "black" :background ,(cadr evil-replace-state-cursor) :inherit telephone-line-evil))))
    `(telephone-line-evil-motion ((t (:foreground "black" :background ,(cadr evil-motion-state-cursor) :inherit telephone-line-evil))))
    `(telephone-line-evil-operator ((t (:foreground "black" :background ,(cadr evil-operator-state-cursor) :inherit telephone-line-evil))))
    `(telephone-line-evil-emacs ((t (:foreground "black" :background ,(cadr evil-emacs-state-cursor) :inherit telephone-line-evil)))))

Since this code is after I defined what colors and shapes I want for the evil-state cursors I just reference them with (cadr evil-statename-state-cursor) and evaluate them using the tick mark. But replacing the cadr statements with a static color and the tick mark with ' is fine too.

[dbordak]

custom-theme-set-faces doesn't require an existing theme, you can make a new one that only configures telephone-line. You can enable multiple themes at the same time.

[ghost]

It would be really nice if your README / configuration file showed an example of customizing the colour themes. I also just want to change the evil state colours.

[dbordak]

Yeah, I definitely want to have an example up on the repo.