more colour options

[ms-jpq]

override LS_COLOURS

[Mte90]

Maybe also give to filenames the same colors of the icon not everything white as it is now.

[ms-jpq]

those actually follow your LS_COLORS environmental variable, like you can currently use

https://github.com/seebi/dircolors-solarized

or a number of similar projects to add colouring,

[Mte90]

I use exa instead of ls with an alias https://the.exa.website/ That is colored, it is possible to use that?

[ms-jpq]

exa also uses LS_COLORS plus some of its own colouring for example on *.pdf files.

I cannot add those exa extras, but I am commited to support all LS_COLORS

[Mte90]

It's not clear for me, this tool use ls to generate the list or use the colors that will be used by that command?

[ms-jpq]

No, it parses LS_COLORS variable, which there are lots of presets for such as

https://github.com/seebi/dircolors-solarized

or

https://github.com/trapd00r/LS_COLORS

This is more useful than other colouring schemes because for example +x is almost always coloured as green, or sockets will be often yellow and such. Each colour represents something useful about the files / folders.

[Mte90]

Ok now is more clear, thanks!

[ms-jpq]

idea:

emulate more popular file explorers so themes that contain their highlight groups will automatically apply to CHADTree.

[WinWisely268]

When dircolors are set to the original 16 colors like so:

The colors of CHADTree is not using current terminal colors though:

[Jwwyite]

When dircolors are set to the original 16 colors like so:

The colors of CHADTree is not using current terminal colors though:

I have the same problem, and I use the same colorscheme. So after seeing your reply I thought that it may be somehow connected to the nord colorscheme. And here's what I got after exporting this https://github.com/seebi/dircolors-solarized/blob/master/dircolors.256dark

[Mte90]

In my install tree is getting the LS_COLORS var but in neovim with chadtree no, maybe add a debug system for that?

[ms-jpq]

Ok sorry this issue has been open for a long time, and is the most popular issue. I am not ignoring this, I will add in the new colour options, but maybe it will take longer than expected.

Recently, I got into something great with I person I really like, so ya thats been my all my free time pretty much for the next bit.

[Mte90]

No worries, this is open source. If you cannot do it someone else will do that. I already started looking at the code as example to see if I can do something when I have time.

[ms-jpq]

thank you :D

I've been getting zero work done for the past week, its so exciting.

[Mte90]

A bit more information after a debugging, if I run nvim from terminal where is the variable chadtree can read the global var. Else if I run in KDE like with Krunner as I usually do, chadtree is not colored. Looking at the code I think that a solution can be create a new variable where the user set the path of the script and execute it or parse it as already do.

[Mte90]

Right now I patched it in that way but is very dirty solution, on file ls_colours.py line 255:

if ls_colours == '':
        f=open(path.expanduser("~/.vim/bundle/chadtree/_lscolors"), "r")
        ls_colours = f.read()

In _lscolors there is the pure string so chadtree can parse it. I think that we can find a way to add a variable in vimrc to pass the custom string instead of a hardcoded solution like this.

[Mte90]

Any updates for this @ms-jpq

[ms-jpq]

yeah sorry i havn't forgot about this, I just have a bunch of things going on in my life right now that I have higher piority on.

I don't know when I will get to finish this, but I know exactly what I need to do, I will just have to find the time to do it.

[Mte90]

It's me again, maybe if you explain there what you want to do I can try to do a pull request, as I am starting to hate the sidebar as it is now and start regretting Nerdtree just for this is not good for my Neovim XD

[ms-jpq]

please don't make a PR for the moment, im making some big changes in another branch, I guess ill do it in there after i make sure everything still works

https://github.com/ms-jpq/chadtree/tree/future2

i guess it wont be too much effort for me to add it there

[Mte90]

I will wait like a kid waiting for the christmas present also if christmas was a few weeks ago :-D

[ms-jpq]

Some update, I am pretty close to it, the PR is really big, like close to 200 commits, and im sure will easily go over when im done.

Here is what I still need to do:

1) Add more documentation, the new PR have a command called CHADhelp, and it will open documentation in either a floating window, or a web browser window (assuming u have a web browser installed). Obviously this means that I will need to write up the docs, which is pretty tedious because I want to do a good job at it.

2) Need to test it pretty extensively, since I basically did a minor rewrite. I do not have access to my machines right now, because I am stuck overseas due to having my flights rekt by covid restrictions. It will take me a day or two of testing on Windows, Linux and MacOS once Im home.

So far everything is looking good though, I will also do a Doc on what I changed, and why. It's very exciting :)

[ms-jpq]

https://github.com/ms-jpq/chadtree/blob/chad/docs/THEME.md

sneak peak, added 7 colour options for now, and added examples for the 3 icon options.

[Mte90]

It works :-D

[ms-jpq]

:D you should see the improvements I made :D

The new thing also comes with parallel file system walk and react like minimizing renderer.

Gonna make a reddit post about this later but im so tired. over 400 commits...