add support for light shell/terminal themes

[ninrod]

I'm using papercolor (light theme) on iTerm2 and have just installed k. It seems that k doesn't play nice with light themes.

I'm using OSx with coreutils installed so my ls command should behave as in GNU/Linux.

my full shell config can be seen here.

[supercrabtree]

Hey, yes I am aware of this, I am currently slowly redoing the color handling, not really sure what to do about this particular problem at the moment. Problem is you only get 256 colors to play with.

As a quickfix to your problem, you could fork this and fiddle with the colors here:

k/k.sh

Lines 170 to 181 in e94410b

	SIZELIMITS_TO_COLOR=(
	1024 46 # <= 1kb
	2048 82 # <= 2kb
	3072 118 # <= 3kb
	5120 154 # <= 5kb
	10240 190 # <= 10kb
	20480 226 # <= 20kb
	40960 220 # <= 40kb
	102400 214 # <= 100kb
	262144 208 # <= 0.25mb || 256kb
	524288 202 # <= 0.5mb || 512kb
	)

[ninrod]

Ok, thank you for the gist

[ELLIOTTCABLE]

@supercrabtree what are your thoughts, here? For simply light-versus-dark, an environment variable is enough, I would think — the behaviour doesn't need to change, just the order (whether “light” or “dark” is considered faded-out and old).

Check out how Vim does it, which is far from perfect, but a start; also see the $COLORFGBG variable (although propagating support for that is problematic in its own way), and in particular, this synthesis of the above into shell-script.

[fawaf]

+1 to @ELLIOTTCABLE . even a simple light vs dark initial update would be great. then better color handling can happen afterwards.