Show me ur editor themes pls

[pallid forge]

Thanks a lot

[lament flower]

ah this is it https://github.com/protesilaos/aporetic

nah I don't use it, I use berkeley mono

I just grabbed one of the theme example pictures, the theme and the iosevka config are by the same person

[pallid forge]

Ah understand.

[verbal jay]

gleaming in everforest and fantasque sans mono

[wintry bay]

I love everforest

[latent lynx]

nice font

[lament flower]

very cosy

[latent lynx]

i think its time i picked up a new theme/font

https://font.nina.coffee im gonna give lotion a try

[verbal jay]

it's my new obsession. i couldn't use anything but iosevka for extended periods of time before, but somehow this one scratches the itch so well

[verbal jay]

the brackets are really cute here

[latent lynx]

no pipe ligature 😔

[lament flower]

it does still look pretty good though

[verbal jay]

a little tall though, reminds me of the victor mono 1.3 kilometre font height

the smal parenthesis is really appealing tho

[latent lynx]

ah i had zed configured with a taller line height

i can get behind this :3

everforest looks liek a nice dark theme

[verbal jay]

https://tenor.com/view/flashbang-gif-22572243

[potent hamlet]

haskell as the example language and no (|>) ligature 😆

[latent lynx]

💀

i am a light mode enjoyer its true

[potent hamlet]

everyone has flaws

[verbal jay]

me when i go (|>) = flip ($) in every single one of my haskell projects

cannot go back to haskell $ after experiencing gleam |>

[potent hamlet]

(&) in Data.Function i believe!

[latent lynx]

yeah but its gross

[verbal jay]

ur right, i just like how |> looks ;-;

[potent hamlet]

true

but so does $ and .

[verbal jay]

especially if the font is nice, i love maple mono's $

[latent lynx]

$ should've been |

-# dont hurt me

[verbal jay]

no u might be onto something

or

<|

[potent hamlet]

I liked the old maple font better 😔

[lament flower]

ooooh that's really pretty

[vagrant summit]

cute font, i have stolen

[lament flower]

maybe berkeley mono and modus operandi are due a change

[proud ledge]

Change? Yall are weird

[vagrant summit]

I can't keep the same things for too long

Need to spice things up a bit

[latent lynx]

i change my stuff all the time yeah

[lament flower]

okay yeah I'm into this

this is cute

[potent hamlet]

sometimes I feel like it's the programmer equivalent to mirroring the image you're working on

[potent hamlet]

regex

[lament flower]

:3

yes I could write a proper parser for it and it would be nicer

but I have to write python

so I don't want to

[verbal jay]

we got a comment artisan over here

[lament flower]

what can I say, I've been taking notes from the best (namely @latent lynx)

[latent lynx]

That comment puts mine to shame idk what you mean :3

[lament flower]

does it though :p

[limber raptor]

woah

do u just write your comments in a clean buffer then append /// before each of them and then copy them to the gleam file?

[lament flower]

I mean I just write them inside the comment, emacs can reflow paragraphs inside a comment so that's easy to deal with

that last one is hayleigh's though and idk what she does

[limber raptor]

I'm still messing around with // comments in a ///

[proud ledge]

Funny looking Gleam

[vagrant summit]

haven't you heard, she's trying out Gleam V2. It has mutation and a space sensitive syntax

[wintry bay]

Sign me up for that

[vagrant summit]

oh and a hand wavey type system

[limber raptor]

and it is now waterproof!

[lament flower]

it fucking sucks :3

in fairness I actually don't hate python as a language, but my word the tooling is bad

[vagrant summit]

I've heard uv is supposed to be better

[hybrid sparrow]

OK but it's like how the debugging facilities are meant to be the best in the world

they could be made out of Pope Francis for all I care if I'm fighting the thing all the time

[lament flower]

uv makes dependency management a lot better, I've been pushing for a switch and it's going pretty well

and ruff is really nice for linting and formatting

but there are loads of language servers and imo none of them are fantastic

[shut robin]

I've seen this, but don't use python. Is it any good? https://rye.astral.sh/

Oh wait there's a new disclaimer that uv is the successor lol

[lament flower]

yeah use uv instead of rye :)

btw this is pretty nifty

[peak widget]

this is cool!

[lament flower]

I think neovim has a similar thing too

but emacs can do different fonts hehe

[rare ledge]

I've heard okay things about pyrefly

[lament flower]

oooh I'll have a look, thank you

using type checkers has kinda sucked here though, I have to use a lot of libraries that aren't typed so it would take a lot of boilerplate to satisfy the checkers

[gloomy zealot]

indeed it can :3

:set textwidth=80<CR>
gwip

gw is better than gq since it preserves your cursor location

[lament flower]

oh that's handy!

I knew about gq but not gw, thank you :)

[lament flower]

I meant this thing though, I think the built in neovim lsp can do the same fancy diagnostics now

they look great in gleam hehe

[distant berry]

sure can :3

[lament flower]

ayyy nice :3

[distant berry]

with how i hve it set up it just looks like this when my cursor isnt on it

i had it set to always on at the start but that just got in the way a bunch

[gloomy zealot]

might have to adopt this for proper splitting on newlines with tiny-diagnostic

[distant berry]

feel free https://git.nuv.sh/nuv/nvim/src/commit/6b432d50a269ba8e5db61828c76ebbf28aca175d/lua/config/remap.lua#L22

[lament flower]

yeah I might change it back to inline but we'll see haha

[shut robin]

Same, and I moved even away from the current line. I need to figure out how to display them on demand with a key map like regular diagnostics.

[shut robin]

got around to it. I can now show the current virtual lines on demand like the diagnostic float :D https://github.com/okkdev/dotnix/blob/main/home/programs/neovim/config/fnl/plugins/lsp_config.fnl#L46-L65

[cerulean pier]

Gleam so heckin' pretty on hx via :theme everforest_dark 🥰

[wintry bay]

I loooove everforest dark

[cerulean pier]

how do you like my font bestie? 😁

[wintry bay]

Maple Mono supremacy

[cerulean pier]

We shall win the hearts and minds to the true hivemind

[sturdy quarry]

you'll have to pry monolisa out of my clammy clawed hands

[cerulean pier]

you cant have a campfire at sunset vibe on wednesday nights or sth?

the campfire is the gateway. 😁

[lament flower]

WOAHHHHHH MONOLISA

sorry

[foggy flare]

editor Neovim, theme Catppuccin Mocha, font 0xProto with more subtle ligatures compared to Maple Mono

[proud ledge]

ok that's super tasteful

Look at that subtle transparency on the floating window there

[foggy flare]

yes, I like too, it is subtle

[foggy flare]

vim.opt.winblend = 10

[glass oriole]

I think many others share the setup...

Editor: nvim
Theme: nightfox/duskfox
Font: FiraCode Nerd Font Mono

I do like large line spacing, tho

[proud ledge]

gosh that is so pretty

Do you not have any bar with your desktop environment? So the whole screen is a window?

it's so clean

[glass oriole]

Its just MacOS with everything removed... and Yabai as tiling window manager

[proud ledge]

whoa

[glass oriole]

Big fan of linux myself (arch + i3 + etc on my personal laptop), but they sent me a macbook from work.. I linuxized it as much as I could without breaking anything 🤷‍♂️

[shut robin]

recently switched to zenbones

[vagrant summit]

have you had to disable SIP to do that?

[glass oriole]

I did. But it's only needed for some features..

[glass oriole]

Space focusing (moving through workspaces) being one of them. The most important one, pretty much

[shut robin]

I use yabai without disabling SIP.

only thing I miss is being able to remove the space switch animation

[glass oriole]

Uff.. instant space switching is crucial... 😅

[gusty bloom]

I find the animation helpful, but I've essentially abandoned tiling managers on mac these days, a little too hacky

[latent lynx]

https://www.thelasso.app i use this and am happy with it

[simple scroll]

I had to get my Starship prompt in there cause I like it very much.

Editor: Neovim
Theme: Nord
Font: Iosevka

[wintry bay]

For a change of style I'm trying to use comic mono and I love it

[rare ledge]

I have a friend who writes Python entirely in Comic Sans (non-mono)

[pearl horizon]

i prefer the look of comic code over comic mono personally, it's a shame its a paid font though

i ended up splitting the cost with a few friends who also wanted it to get all the variants of it a few years back

theres a lot of variants lol

[gusty bloom]

It's really not a spendy font to be fair

https://fonts.ilovetypography.com/fonts/tabular-type-foundry/comic-code#collections > that's 30$ for the package you need in an editor

[pearl horizon]

yeah but if i'm getting a font I want all the variants, not just half lol

even if I probably dont need all of them

the only thing that lets it down a bit is the hinting imo. it probably wouldnt be an issue on a 4k screen, but on 1080p and 1440p it doesnt look great at smaller font sizes. it needs to be like 12pt+ to look good

[gusty bloom]

I only have retina displays so it's not really an issue for me

[pearl horizon]

maple mono definitely does a better job at staying legible at small font sizes

maybe when I replace my 1440p ultrawides with 4k ultrawides ill switch back from maple mono to comic code

[rare ledge]

I desperately want a 4k ultrawide but they're so expensive

[pearl horizon]

yeah

I spent $450aud on each of my ultrawides, so i'm waiting until 4k ultrawides come down to under ~$750aud before I consider one

[rare ledge]

The LG UltraGear looks so good. 5k2k ultrawide curved OLED

But very spenny

[pearl horizon]

yeah, and it's 45" which kinda defeats half the point of stepping up from 1440p to 4k

i'd want something similar size as my current ones (34"), so maybe up to 40" maximum

[lament flower]

berkeley mono has really good hinting too, it's amazing how well it holds together when it's smol

[foggy flare]

Cosmic Mono is nice. I prefer 0xProto over Maple Mono which is nice too

I like these subtle ligatures

[rare ledge]

Ooh yeah they are nice

I find these really useful. Don't know why - they're relatively easy to distinguish without them, but my brain parses them easier than !=, === and !==

[sour breach]

have you tried brain_package_manager upgrade --self? xD
I really like CaskaydiaMono. For me it's the perfect mix between casual and clean.

[earnest peak]

Pastel Sky theme and Fixedsys Excelsior 😄

[gloomy zealot]

what theme is this? I like the palette

[sour breach]

Actually I'm not sure what exactly it is. I'm running omarchy, which has a TokyoNight theme and then I use base16_transparent in helix. This is actually different from the normal TokyoNight theme, so I'm not sure how to replicate this, sorry.

Here' s the difference.

[viral veldt]

What a crazy long running thread, I love it!

Editor: Emacs
Font: OpenDyslexicM Nerd Font Mono
Theme: Dracula

[void fox]

@latent lynx Any cute fonts like Lotion but Nerd Font patched ?

[latent lynx]

i have no idea what nerd font is 😅

[void fox]

And for sharing:

nvim
plugin count: 59
theme gruvebox
font ZedMono

[void fox]

It provides icons and mojis -> https://www.nerdfonts.com/

[buoyant field]

Basically for getting icons into your terminal

[latent lynx]

woah cool

[buoyant field]

you can patch existing fonts, that's what I did with lotion

[void fox]

Ohhh, right! forgot that, ty !

[buoyant field]

• nvim with lazyvim (because I am lazy)
• Trying kanagawa after a looooong time on gruvbox
• Nerd patched lotion font

[lapis thicket]

That font is so airy. I love it

[buoyant field]

I cracked after seeing it in hayleighs screenshots one too many times ^^

I used Iosevka for a looong time too and it has the same narrow-tall feel

[void fox]

Just for fun @buoyant field this is my plugis

[lapis thicket]

I love font with some letter spacing. Too condensed and it feels cramped

[buoyant field]

oh mine is wholly uninteresting, it's pretty much lazy defaults plus kanagawa plus some language servers

[void fox]

Ohhhh, got it. Mine is fully personalized

[buoyant field]

yeeaah I always wanna do that but then I never wanna do that

[charred ingot]

i call this personal_theme

[void fox]

I'm happy to share you my configs as boilerplate

[charred ingot]

I mean there isn't any theme like this lol, i made it myself

I want to make one using gleam colors

[buoyant field]

that's kind, but I'm good for now, I've mostly been a vim-mode user so there's plenty to get used to with the plugins I already have

[void fox]

Challenging, but if you will remember (you might already know it) to use adobe color helper

[charred ingot]

Yess, cool 😎

[buoyant field]

the blue on black contrast is a bit rough

and the pink is very pink but hey you do you

[charred ingot]

I wanted to make a theme which doesn't kill your eyes

[short zenith]

https://github.com/trag1c/gleam-theme can borrow from this

[charred ingot]

First i went with light blue

But then it was hurting my eye

So then I changed to dark

I love dark themes

[terse lily]

Slightly customised vscode. Seeing others, it makes me wonder how many people actually run without line numbers.
Theme: Tokyo night storm
Font: Hasklug Nerd Font (I'm wanting to change)
nonsense & line numbers: yeeted

[charred ingot]

But never found one that satisfied me

[glass oriole]

Changed my theme througout the system to "rose pine". Really liking it. https://rosepinetheme.com/

[simple scroll]

Rosepine (together with Everforest) is on my list of themes to change to if Nord ever gets too cold for me. It looks very beautiful.

[glass oriole]

I also like that they provide themes for almost every tool: nvim, tmux, starship, zsh, fzf, ... etc nice color palette and minimalist design

[vagrant summit]

holy heck do you have super vision (or is my eye sight not as good as I thought), that font size looks tiny

oh i put my glasses on

not as bad as i thought 💀

[glass oriole]

Its also a really big monitor, and I have it close to me

[main portal]

Double spacing MLA represent

[lapis thicket]

That looks lovely

[charred ingot]

Same, ig I'm blind now 😵

[limber raptor]

(I have my glasses on, thought it was just a black screen)

had to zoom in

[glass oriole]

It’s funny that I should be wearing glasses.. but I refuse to accept my ~old~ age

[leaden creek]

Editor: Zed + Vim Mode 💜
Font: Departure Mono
Theme: Gruvbox Dark Hard

[wintry bay]

I love z Ed’s gru box theme

[lapis thicket]

I Lotion

[buoyant field]

another convert

[latent lynx]

another oneee

[potent hamlet]

me toooo

AND light mode!!

[buoyant field]

nah i'm dark mode for life

[glass oriole]

Tried lotion.. but it having the "->" ligature, but not the "<-" was a dealbreaker for me... I'm THAT obsessive..

[limber raptor]

no thats reasonable imo haha

[buoyant field]

i use it without ligatures

they're not even monospaced, they were added by another person and apparently didn't get reviewd too well :/

[limber raptor]

I need my ligatures

[buoyant field]

funnily enough I think it was the guy behind nice! nano

[glass oriole]

That's also not good...

[limber raptor]

lilex my beloved..

[buoyant field]

yeah hence why I just use it without

[glass oriole]

Settled on 0xProto Nerd Font Mono for now... been testing several ones over the last couple days. But I think I like the way this one feels

[buoyant field]

regarding nerd fonts, you can patch any existing fonts as well just so you know

[limber raptor]

what's the editor? (And can I steal a bit of it?)

[glass oriole]

nvim

[limber raptor]

good!

grabby hands at your dotfiles

[glass oriole]

Hmm not public. I need to review if nothing leaked before opening the repo 🙈 But in essence it's just nvim running inside tmux running on ghostty. Everything on rose pine theme. And now 0xProto Nerd Font Mono font

[limber raptor]

mostly interested in the statusline and

whatever that in the top is, displaying the filename

[glass oriole]

https://github.com/b0o/incline.nvim

[glass oriole]

Just lualine with some small customization

[lapis thicket]

OK, after coding in Lotion for a couple of days, I've changed my mind.

When code has a lot of white space like Gleam, it looks great.

For languages with lots of visual clutter like Golang, my eyes have trouble parsing it.

[limber raptor]

I think I need to share this one once again

[limber raptor]

yes, I've picked up lotion. yes, I've stolen your lualine. yes.

[glass oriole]

I love that zellij's style

But I'm too deep into tmux to hop

[true pewter]

I like everything configured by default, so that not to manage anything myself, but just benefit from someone keeping the default theme always fixed and up to date like guys from JetBrains do. So i focus on smth else important and do not think about theme

[rigid sun]

Yeah I like how Intellij for example comes so clean out of the box

[languid wolf]

Here's the one I ported from iTerm2/ghostty into vsc/zed

"tomorrow night burns"

[restive terrace]

This is what I've been using recently, and I've been liking it so far

• Theme: Starlight
• Font: JetBrains Mono
• Editor: Helix

[verbal jay]

spent too much time on plugins so i decided to cut everything out (including the statusline)
nvim + melange colorscheme

[restive terrace]

what font is this?

[verbal jay]

"Lilex", it's a fork of IBM Plex Mono that adds some visual tweaks and ligatures

[restive terrace]

Awesome, i might start using it myself

[crisp kite]

Thanks for this tip, what a great font

[wintry bay]

The color scheme is beautiful!!

[verbal jay]

right?

i was getting tired of gruvbox (material) and it was so hard to find another theme that scratches the same itch

[buoyant field]

I switched to Kanagawa recently after YEARS of gruvbox

[wintry bay]

Same, I’ll give melange a try! Hope to find one for zed

[vagrant summit]

unfortunately the melange light theme on zed lacks enough contrast for me

i'm a light theme girlie

the dark theme does look nice though

[verbal jay]

https://tenor.com/view/flashbang-gif-22572243

[earnest peak]

I feel for the dark theme users who are unable to configure their monitors and environments to not hurt their eyes and thus must resort to using crutches like dark themes 😔

[tired axle]

Dark themes save power smh

[vagrant summit]

what if i'm power hungry huh

[limber raptor]

not if you don't use leds 💡

and even then

[verbal jay]

even when i set my temperature to ~4000K and tweak gamma & brightness, i get eye fatigue from light themes faster than dark ones

[limber raptor]

I can't focus on the text in dark mode usually

[verbal jay]

plus for me, light themes decrease legibility, especially how i don't use my glasses when looking at screens

[limber raptor]

I'll just be looking at

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[lapis thicket]

Dark mode for code, light mode for prose

[gusty bloom]

Light mode during the day, dark mode at night

The OS knows when the sun rises and falls, might as well rely on that~

[sturdy quarry]

this makes too much sense

does zed support this 🤔

cc @thorny lava can i set a daytime vs nighttime theme

[gusty bloom]

Yes: https://zed.dev/docs/themes#configuring-a-theme

[limber raptor]

yeah. i do this too

[limber raptor]

the lua code on my neovim knows.

[gusty bloom]

Yeah, neovim handles the right terminal event

I'm pretty sure this is just ghostty and kitty handling it right now though

[limber raptor]

for me it just checks the hours lol

[gusty bloom]

Ah, macOS does dark/light switch based on sunrise/sundown hours for the day

Some themes handle that better than others though

[west wraith]

anybody have any cute gleam-y theme recommendations? i've been using catppuccin mocha + monaspace neon in neovim for a while now, but i'm getting a bit bored

[west wraith]

trying out
theme: Rosé Pine
font: Lotion
after going through this thread

[verbal jay]

everforest is a gleamlin classic

[foggy flare]

have you tried https://github.com/catppuccin/gleam ?

for generating colors

or https://github.com/trag1c/gleam-theme/tree/main/themes

[west wraith]

that's just a gleam library containing the colors as constants, no? not a theme in itself, but still a cool thing if I wanted to theme one of my projects

[dusky apex]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=trag1c.gleam-theme
the true gleam theme

[dusky apex]

oh i think that's the same thing isn't it

oh yeah the authors the same

[foggy flare]

yes, gleam way to export catppuccin gleam colors

[raven ocean]

Kinda late to the party, but I'm using neovim, using retrobox (yes, from the default pack)
Font: Fantasque Sans Mono

[foggy bronze]

Ive made the colors and rules this saturday
font is that jetbrains common one

[hexed compass]

Retrobox is pretty sweet!

[high hemlock]

editor: helix
theme: dracula
font: Hasklug Nerd Font Mono

[urban smelt]

helix + base16_transparent (with rosé piné moon/dawn colors in wezterm)

[viscid cove]

just read this today, has me rethinking my editor choices: https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/

[hybrid sparrow]

Emacs Scheme mode highlights very little, whereas the Racket mode is much more aggressive. But Racket mode's highlighting often breaks down inexplicably, sometimes it highlights lets correctly, sometimes not.

[latent lynx]

based lustre user

whats the font?

[urban smelt]

fantasque sans mono, obsessed with it and use it everywhere

also thank you for making the only frontend framework i can not only stomach but actually enjoy using <3

[latent lynx]

ahh i think i have used this at one point in time!

thank u more for using it

[potent hamlet]

my people

[sturdy quarry]

lol the zed port makes yaml unreadable

and thats on top of yamls normal unreadableness

[viscid cove]

screenshot?

[sturdy quarry]

there's nothing to show it's just different shades of grey

basically unhighlighted

but almost worse somehow

oh wait it does this for go too... i think the port might just not be complete or smth

maybe i'll check it out again in a few months

[vagrant summit]

Person with unreadable website has no right saying I’m wrong

[viscid cove]

yeah, that black on yellow is a bit rough isn't it?

[sturdy quarry]

what you don't like spongebob?

[vagrant summit]

I’ve got custom css changing the background to white

So I can actually read their posts

[viscid cove]

you set that up just now, or you're already familiar with this website?

[buoyant field]

i feel like the examples are a bit extreme because everything is colored in really loud colors

[vagrant summit]

Already familiar

[buoyant field]

I like colored keywords. If the color is muted.

[raven ocean]

my eyes T_T

[urban smelt]

i put it behind a SPOILER for a reason fdshjfkds

[raven ocean]

I have all spoilers shown by default, lol

kinda my fault

[urban smelt]

me when self-inflicted eye damage:

(/lh)

[raven ocean]

sry, but what does /lh mean? I don't have my listy list here

[urban smelt]

lighthearted

[raven ocean]

oh

me stubid

[urban smelt]

it's ok me too

[vital horizon]

As a Jetbrains user, can I ask - what minor reasons?

[vital horizon]

Editor: neovim
Theme: Kanagawa
Font: JetBrains Mono

[west wraith]

kanagawa is great! the ink-y colours combined with a matte laptop screen make it very easy on the eyes

it reminds me of https://stephango.com/flexoki

[floral solar]

I keep switching between zed & vscode (sometimes RustRover and PHPStorm), but I'm always rocking the Gleam theme

[buoyant field]

Ayy fellow Kanagawa enjoyer

[unique marsh]

Liga Hack:

• has a tad more weight, thus it is a bit better to read imho
• has less serifs (on say the r and the i)
• follows the text baseline a bit more consistently in my eyes

[vital horizon]

Cool. I didn't know this one

[vital horizon]

Sounds good. I'll give it a try. I tested quite a bunch of fonts before picking JetBrains Mono (I found it to be the best for me in terms of distinguishing letters).

[unique marsh]

Yes, it is close, I used it a lot before. And for the reasons I like Hack Liga, maybe for similar reasons people prefer JetBrains

[vital horizon]

Can you give me a link to this font? I can't find it online

[hot coral]

Some over the top 👻 shaders

[buoyant field]

this makes me feel octoberstimulated

[latent lynx]

lustre tho so approved

[limber raptor]

:3

[crisp kite]

I got triggered by that Tonsky article but didn't like his color choices (both theme and site) so I took my current neovim theme of choice (Catppuccin Mocha) and hacked together a more semantic / less intense version.. well, there were more things in that article I disagreed with so it's not really that related but yeah, that was the impetus. Font is Lilex.

[tawdry escarp]

Funny

[unique marsh]

I don't know where I got it from, maybe here https://github.com/gaplo917/Ligatured-Hack/releases

[unique marsh]

that's neovim or something?

[hot coral]

Yep neovim in ghostty terminal with some glsl shaders I made

[unique marsh]

the zapping shaders are super cool, and I think they help with keeping track where the cursor jumps when using search/lsp actions etv.

[bright lagoon]

Is your theme available somewhere? I would like to study it if it’s available

[crisp kite]

yes, here: https://git.liten.app/krig/filth-theme apologies for the name, it was a dirty hack

[bright lagoon]

Thanks, it looks nice!

[umbral kelp]

Editor: neovim
Theme: Oasis-Abysss
Font: MesloLGS Nerd Font-Regular

[drowsy raven]

Project-panel on the left or right side?

[fluid nymph]

Editor: nvim (0.12-nightly, with a pretty minimal config)
Theme: Nord
Font: FiraCode

The bar that's visible on the top of the screenshot are my tmux tabs

[brave laurel]

its kanagawa i believe

don't have any gleam code to take a pic of cos i haven't used gleam a lot

[wanton jay]

Editor: VS Code
Theme: Solarized Light (customized a bit, but I think here it doesn't show much)
Font: Fira Code

[earnest peak]

Gorgeous!

[elder swift]

I just use Zed's default One Light theme and default Lilex font

[latent lynx]

lilex looks nice

[wanton jay]

I need to try out Zed by the support for my main language is not great yet (no debugging)

Does Zed have support for vertical tabs?

[latent lynx]

like this you mean?

[wanton jay]

No, like on the screen I posted where you have a list of tabs vertically aligned without the horizontal classic look

I just got used to vertical so much for IDEs (I still use horizontal for browsers)

[latent lynx]

oh! ive never seen something like that

i dont think zed supports that

[floral solar]

Which language ?

[wanton jay]

C#

I don't think dap is there yet for it

[low turtle]

neovim, Monospace Regular (usually Iosevka), no LSP or syntax highlighting for no good reason at all

[rugged sierra]

helix with autumn_night theme on foot terminal with gohu font 14

[next blaze]

Always used this. Customised Monokai with Roboto Mono.
Not too warm, not too cool, just right.

[distant berry]

c# support for lsp just isn't great
ime there's always some features missing outside of vs and rider

[dusky apex]

Thread revival (basic rose pine with maple mono)

[pallid forge]

on purpose due to the sales of visual studio, vscode is actively held down, even F# has better support now.

debugger comes from Samsung (or is not open source) 😋

[lament patrol]

I love themes but I really want a slider that goes from “emphasize language syntax” to “emphasize comments” to “emphasize user-defined values”

If not a slider, a few separate themes would probably be able to get in the ballpark

[latent lynx]

thats an interesting idea

i like the thought of being able to tweak the editor based on whether you're writing or reviewing, thats cool

[lament patrol]

“Semantic highlighting” is a thing that makes each user-defined word its own color

Dr. Racket has a thing where if you click on a variable it sprouts lines connecting it to the other instances of that variable. I think Coq has something kinda similar too.

[pallid forge]

Very much, this is a great idea

[floral solar]

Thats like, an insane idea

How would one control the slider tho? With like a cli?

[verbal musk]

Wait wait what editor is this? This is so cool!

[pearl horizon]

Looks like it's just neovim

The animation stuff is probably compositor shaders, not part of the editor

[lament patrol]

without understanding how any of it works I'm gonna go out on a limb and just say "plugin"

Theming systems take parsed language features and associate each one with a color.

But something I'd also like to see is a way to take an existing theme and permute which colors go to which language features, all within the same theme so the palette stays the same.

// base theme mapping
keyword = "#fe8300"
function = "#02ab8a"
type = "#303030"
comment = "#dddddd"

then trigger some kind of "cycle-theme" action in your editor and presto:

// permuted theme
keyword = "#303030"
function = "#dddddd"
type = "#fe8300"
comment = "#02ab8a"

[granite loom]

Zed, Maple Mono, Fleet Dark theme

[pearl horizon]

maple mono is so good

[granite loom]

Yes, I love it

I use it everywhere nowadays

[pearl horizon]

same

[lime tusk]

i like vesper

[raven ocean]

Changed it to lackluster-dark after redoing my config

nvim 0.12, using vim.pack :d

[latent lynx]

i hope you're not lacking lustre 😔

[floral solar]

Damn I'm too slow 🙁

[raven ocean]

erm... I'm not using lustre, sry :d

does gleam on the server count

[gusty bloom]

Breaking my heart

[raven ocean]

I made the very bad decision of using litjs

never again :d

[crimson sail]

im just using 2026 gleam dark theme

[nova cosmos]

Theme: Colorizer Pro, Font: Jetbrains mono, Editor: Zed

[latent lynx]

elm 😭

i had to check what discord i was in there that threw me 😂

[finite ridge]

mountain

[latent lynx]

ooo

is there a light mode?

[finite ridge]

the author started it 5 years ago but never finished it ☹️

[latent lynx]

😭

[raven ocean]

hayleigh is in the light mode team?

[distant berry]

i used to be dark theme only forever
until @limber raptor introduced me to the wonders of dynamic theming
i.e. light mode by day dark mode by night

so nice

[latent lynx]

yes big time!

[raven ocean]

wait, people actually use light mode, I was joking :d

proof!

[earnest peak]

proof: #1047673837459865721 message

[raven ocean]

-# double joke, btw :d

plz no hatey

[raven ocean]

not pastel enough :d

[raven ocean]

is that the same theme, lol

[earnest peak]

I didn't name the theme 🤷‍♂️

[latent lynx]

nah i use the github theme

[raven ocean]

hm

kinda nice, but I will not be converted

mostly bc I code at night :d

[gusty bloom]

Light mode ftw

[vagrant summit]

light mode best mode

[distant berry]

light mode goes hard

[gusty bloom]

Y'all have font sizes and line heights too small 😂

[distant berry]

i usually have the font a LOT larger tbh

[latent lynx]

emilia activating boomer mode

[gusty bloom]

I have a small correction so far, and I fully intend to keep it that way 😤

[raven ocean]

my eyes.

[raven ocean]

this one is nice, what's this theme?

[gusty bloom]

everforest!

[lament flower]

anyone else do light mode when it's sunny out and dark mode otherwise?

[gusty bloom]

light mode during the day, even when it's all grey outside, and dark at night

[latent lynx]

light mode until 2am then dark mode

💀

[lament flower]

if it's overcast I'll just pick whatever I'm vibing with

[distant berry]

light mode till sunset and then it auto swaps to dark

[latent lynx]

nooo thats the worst

[lament flower]

I used to have a script to do that but it broke and I haven't fixed it yet

[latent lynx]

awful

[distant berry]

on my work pc i have it swap to dark mode 15min before im done with work

so i dont get lost in the sauce and forget

[raven ocean]

what if I'm always sun... no wait

[gusty bloom]

Isn't there anything built-in for that in linux?

[finite ridge]

you could use something like tinty to theme your entire system

[limber raptor]

I believe there is a daemon you can install and have do this, I forgot it's name. I just use lua's tonumber(os.date("%H")) most of the time (and Ollie inherited that heheh)

[lament flower]

kde only got a built-in thing for that fairly recently, it isn't in debian stable yet

but I use a script anyway so that I can tell my terminal and neovim and whatnot to all switch theme too

[gusty bloom]

Dang, that means some linux people may be getting age verification before proper system theming

I don't have any scripts, it all just works out of the box for me on all applications 😭

[lament flower]

tbf on gnome it's worked great for a while, and on the newest kde it's much improved there too

but yeah, until recently it was still pretty janky sadly

[lament patrol]

I switch themes a lot and usually go with solarized light, but lately I've been enjoying doric-magma on emacs

[limber raptor]

emacs awawa

[lament patrol]

lol I don't know if that's a positive or negative reaction

[limber raptor]

positive; from a neovim user liking the idea of emacs alot

[nova cosmos]

Dark mode at 12:00pm on a hot summer day. Politely request clients that I turn on dark mode when working on IT tickets.

[gusty bloom]

my goto emacs theme always was https://github.com/kuanyui/moe-theme.el

[lament flower]

oh hey same, I used that a bunch until the modus themes came out

[finite ridge]

theme from two laptops ago my last laptop

i kinda miss this one

[gusty bloom]

Warm themes will always beat cold ones, imho

[lament patrol]

yeah I tend to go for warmer themes

[raven ocean]

the only part I hate from this is the minimap, otherwise can you send me the git of that? I'll probably try to port it to nvim if it's not a thing

[latent lynx]

ur wallpaper is mental

how do you look at that 💀

[lament patrol]

heh I never use the minimap, just toggled it on for the screenshot
repo, actual colors for doric-magma are here:

  (defvar doric-magma-palette
    '((cursor "#ef3839")
      (bg-main "#351b10")
      (fg-main "#e0baa0")
      (border "#706061")

      (bg-shadow-subtle "#48332b")
      (fg-shadow-subtle "#a0a196")

      (bg-neutral "#5f4743")
      (fg-neutral "#cfbbb0")

      (bg-shadow-intense "#7c301c")
      (fg-shadow-intense "#ff9d7e")

      (bg-accent "#5a2914")
      (fg-accent "#f65f47")

      (fg-red "#fc826f")
      (fg-green "#b9c06a")
      (fg-yellow "#cfa030")
      (fg-blue "#7fafc7")
      (fg-magenta "#df70af")
      (fg-cyan "#70a0c0")

      (bg-red "#5f240f")
      (bg-green "#3f440f")
      (bg-yellow "#554600")
      (bg-blue "#3f2457")
      (bg-magenta "#5a2f40")
      (bg-cyan "#2f4954"))
  "Palette of `doric-magma' theme.")

...an exercise for the reader to map those names into nvim's world

[raven ocean]

oh god, lisp

[lament patrol]

anyone who can tolerate VimScript can tolerate lisp

[raven ocean]

I've never done vimscript :d

[lament flower]

don't

[lament patrol]

unless you've been an Nvim user from the start which I think is Lua(?) then my condolences

[lament flower]

yeah nvim uses lua, it almost feels like it's approaching emacs in extensibility these days

[lament patrol]

yeah Lua is a huge step up from VimScript, a great decision by the Nvim folks

[raven ocean]

is that a good thing?

[lament patrol]

I think so. It's all opt-in.

[lament flower]

yes, I like emacs a lot and I think it's one of the easiest programs to extend and modify that I've ever used

[raven ocean]

it's kinda making nvim be a little slow, but eh, ig it makes sense

[lament flower]

emacs has a leg up because of its design: the core of it is a lisp interpreter, and pretty much the entire editor is written in lisp

so you know the configuration language is really good, because the editor is written in it

[pallid forge]

Now that Helix is finally merging Steel, I feel like that's it for terminal editors.

[lament flower]

plus, if you want to change the way something works, you can just look at the lisp for it, change it however you like, and then reevaluate it on the fly

[raven ocean]

I don't like that, ngl

the editor was made on defaults and no plugins

but then the steel nation attacked

no wait

[lament flower]

vi didn't have plugins

[raven ocean]

helix was good, now it's neovim at home

[lament patrol]

hot code reloading before all the cool kids started using the BEAM

actually is there... a BEAM-ified Emacs?

[west wraith]

beamacs

[lament flower]

yeah! I still love the way common lisp in particular does hot code reloading

[gloomy zealot]

honestly i don't believe in the ability of the helix maintainers to merge anything

[pallid forge]

willingness

[gloomy zealot]

i used helix for a year but it's been plugin system soon™ for as long as I can remember

[pallid forge]

There is a cool fork

[gloomy zealot]

neovim is extensible now

[gloomy zealot]

everyone and their mom has a fork for merging all the PRs

[pallid forge]

https://github.com/mattwparas/helix-config

[gloomy zealot]

honestly my pessimism surrounding helix is really just frustration with how open source projects can drive away contributors and users

[raven ocean]

there is a plugin branch now? dunno, haven't seen it for a while

[gloomy zealot]

my favorite writeup on the subject is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/code-review-antipatterns/

[dusky apex]

i just can't get used to the keybinds 😭

[gloomy zealot]

helix maintainers follow this to a tee

[gloomy zealot]

I got used to them in like a week 🤷‍♀️

[raven ocean]

just be like me and use helix keybinds on nvim

not even joking

[gloomy zealot]

helix life is not as bad as I make it out to be, it just makes me sad seeing projects with tons of momentum and goodwill stagnate

[gusty bloom]

Same, I saw a bunch of functionality I would've liked to see already in PRs on the helix repo, it's a little disheartening

[simple scroll]

I wish they would have somewhat of a predictable release schedule. That said I'm very happy ever since I've switched to helix.

[gusty bloom]

I can't criticise the release schedule when neovim is just as unpredictable haha

[gloomy zealot]

difference is with neovim, you can do pretty much anything with the plugin system

you're not waiting on a release in the same way

[gusty bloom]

That's very true

[gloomy zealot]

neovim is imperfect in lots of metrics - I just think its ecosystem and long history are undervalued when it comes to niche customizations

[gusty bloom]

I've used neovim since the 0.1 days haha, the promise of not needing syntastic was too good

[gloomy zealot]

custom textobjects are something I can't live without

there's a lot of indentation textobjects, there's even a helix PR adding one

but I was able to set up a "surrounding indent" textobject which I've barely seen

[raven ocean]

lsps :d

you could still do everything with lsps :d

[gusty bloom]

I'm a little worried about the state of treesitter with clason having burnt out (understandably)

[raven ocean]

eh, unless a major thing happens, I'll still be using it :d

[gloomy zealot]

and I made a custom version of the comment textobject that also works for trailing comments

[gloomy zealot]

it is hilarious seeing helixers fit everything into an lsp-shaped-hole

[raven ocean]

I mean, that was the promise of helix...

[gloomy zealot]

i think the nvim-treesitter archiving panic is a little overhyped

[raven ocean]

no configs, just good defaults

add your lsp and you're done

hell, there is even lsp-ai nowadays bc of it

[gloomy zealot]

doesnt mean people don't try to customize it

i would be fine with good defaults if I thought the defaults were good 😅

[gusty bloom]

Worried mainly, I know gleam has had a lot of TS tweaks over time

[gloomy zealot]

but the nvim-treesitter plugin doesn't give core functionality

[gusty bloom]

If the queries don't need to be touched, it's fine

[raven ocean]

yea, that was the problem to me, honestly

[gloomy zealot]

even if the queries do need tweaking, that can still be done on the user side

it's not perfect, but :TSUpdate will continue to function

[gusty bloom]

Yeah, but I don't really look forward to have to handle that myself haha

I'm on nix so I leverage the queries directly, but they do come from that repo

[raven ocean]

I don't think that's the place to talk abt this :d

[gusty bloom]

Fair

[finite ridge]

ik lol i had to get used to it

i used a bunch of tiling wallpapers from this github repo: https://github.com/wallace-aph/tiles-and-such

while searching for that repo i found this link i sent a couple years ago: https://github.com/ramojus/mellifluous.nvim

i really like the light theme

but i can't use it because there's no base16 scheme ☹️ maybe i can make one

i miss this setup, i think this was base16-black-metal-marduk

[finite ridge]

quickly ported it to base16, it's the background is a bit too light for me

[glossy plover]

are there any editors that can make each custom type/fn returning type a unique color? (probably would be disgusting just curious how it would look)

[lament patrol]

Semantic highlighting does it for all kinds of identifiers, could probably be customized to only color types.

[glossy plover]

and could do eg green Ok, red Error, automatically assigned for custom types? edit- variants of same type like Ok/Error of Result would probably have to be same color sadly…Ok and String for example would be different

[lament patrol]

If you can customize it, certainly. But my info was out of date. I think there used to be a plugin/theme called semantic highlighting but searching just now all the results are for vscode and aren’t exactly what I meant. This “rainbow identifiers mode” is closer:

https://github.com/Fanael/rainbow-identifiers

[raven ocean]

you can probably do it in any editor using semantic highlighting (I think it does treesitter though?)

or you can just do the dumb and easy way and always highlight Ok as the color you want

[hybrid sparrow]

It's not obviously straightforward to implement in absence of indentation being semantically significant. Whereas rainbow brackets is a little more general.

[lament patrol]

more on colorizing identifiers: https://medium.com/@evnbr/coding-in-color-3a6db2743a1e

[viscid cove]

ok, I'm looking for a new programming font. I was using monaspace because of the letter spacing tricks it does but it's just not going the trick for me now. anyone got some good suggestions?

[raven ocean]

Fantasque Mono Sans

https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

[lament flower]

I love berkeley mono but it isn't free

https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono

[west wraith]

0xproto is nice, been using it recently

[dusky apex]

i personally switch between maple mono
https://github.com/subframe7536/maple-font
and intel one mono
https://github.com/intel/intel-one-mono
and i can't get enough of them

[leaden creek]

This one is a great alternative - called Ioskeley Mono https://github.com/ahatem/IoskeleyMono

[lament flower]

oh that's weirddddd

I've spent a lot of time staring at berkeley mono so this gives me uncanny valley vibes

[viscid cove]

thanks for the suggestions! I'm taking a test fun of maple mono. and might give berkely mono a try

[buoyant field]

I like Myna

[wintry bay]

Oh this is so pretty

I need to try it out

[viscid cove]

it is, but it describes itself as a free version of berkeley mono. if the people who put hard work into berkeley mono want to charge for their work, I think we should honor their choice and shell out the $75. but I'm not making any money right now, so went with maple mono.

[shadow prairie]

I accidentally erased my nvim config but before that I was using Dracula with Iosevka

[raven ocean]

Myna looks like a name, so it looks like you're declaring your love to someone, lol

[raven ocean]

THAT'S THE TSODING FONT!!!

[shadow prairie]

yes :3

i am a regular viewer of mista azozin

[raven ocean]

I just watch the videos, I kinda don't like streams :d

and I hate when he just disrespects chat when they're helping them, so yea...

[shadow prairie]

same actually

[gloomy zealot]

i <3 monocraft

[verbal jay]

iosevka is a great font as it has a bunch of ttf font features, so you can tweak it to look however you want

there are stylistic sets that approximate other fonts as well, it's super versatile

and a lot more fits on the screen than with other fonts because the glyphs are really tall

[hybrid sparrow]

tweak it to however you want up to a point, I never managed to work out how to get it to look like Monaco, although I got close. It was still too tall/square

I am also unconvinced that it can be made to look like pragmatapro, the current efforts do not look like it at all

[crude quail]

Berkeley Mono, I also love it. Thats money I dont regret spending

[gusty bloom]

Comic code is my fave still, and it's pretty cheap to boot

[tardy horizon]

Lilex (https://github.com/mishamyrt/Lilex) is my fav

[latent lynx]

wait

ZedMono is just lilex

💀

[limber raptor]

WAA

[finite ridge]

iosevka comfy motion fixed :) https://github.com/protesilaos/iosevka-comfy

[foggy flare]

Iosevka is great, I've used for some time. After switched to Maple Mono, and last year to https://github.com/0xType/0xPropo

[shadow prairie]

helix + horizon-dark + iosevka (nvim users get helixmogged)

[west wraith]

ooh, horizon dark looks really good

[shadow prairie]

yeah it's nice

i was using dracula before but i think i like this better

[wintry bay]

This might be my new favourite dark theme, Kintsugi Dark Flared and the font is Lilex

[shadow prairie]

woahhhh that looks nice

[wintry bay]

I know right?

Also I discovered zed has a crate to automatically convert a vscode theme into a zed one, that saved me sooo much time

[shadow prairie]

if only such a thing existed for helix

[raven ocean]

rust??? not a tsoding viewer :d

[raven ocean]

I mean, helix's themes are kinda easy to add onto

[shadow prairie]

okay but consider: c strings arent real

and also literally everything is unsafe in c

[raven ocean]

wdym safety?

that exists?

[raven ocean]

I always use nob.h when I use C bc of that :

[lament flower]

tbf every time I write C, I make my own string struct that has lengths

it does mean you can't use the regular string library (although you still need string.h for memcmp) but I find it isn't usually too much of a bother to write what I need

[raven ocean]

you need Nob_String_View :d

https://github.com/tsoding/nob.h/blob/main/nob.h#L906

[lament flower]

that's pretty much what I write yeah

[hybrid sparrow]

Does it have the advantages of fixed-size vectors (stack vs heap) compared to the original C strings (C noob here)

[lament flower]

it sorta depends

the char *data field can be a pointer to anything, so you can allocate the characters themselves on the stack or the heap when you initialise them

it comes down to the way you write your string operations: if I had a string_append(String a, String b) function, I might choose to have it dynamically resize a, or I might choose to have it error

[dusky apex]

A proportional font for coding? Don't you have issues with some lines appearing longer/shorter than they are?

[foggy flare]

Not at all issue for me, is just bit more spreaded

There is also 0xProto which is more programmer "friendly". I tried both and can't decide 🙂

[foggy flare]

very nice font

[lament patrol]

Check out how Redis and Cello do strings. They use a cute trick so they’re compatible with c stdlib functions and still have a left field.

[lament patrol]

https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

i haven’t tried this but I like the idea. Separates the concept of alignment from the number of characters so proportional/fixed font doesn’t matter.

[hazy rock]

My new theme, Fauxbespin, inspired by the Mozilla Bespin IDE from way back. Font: Inconsolata.

[hot coral]

Neovim in ghostty terminal - ghostty supports custom shaders

[raven ocean]

lots of people using neovim here

[crimson sail]

go with proto; monospaced fonts are way better for coding

[lament patrol]

doom-emacs with doom-winter-is-coming-light theme, kinda reminds me of the light mode of the Gleam docs

[long obsidian]

doom-emacs, with doom-acario-dark

[raven ocean]

Emacs in 2026.... Respect :d

[lament patrol]

Another doom enjoyer!

[bright lagoon]

Do y’all use some other key bindings for emacs? Or maybe just you don’t get emacs pinky?

[buoyant field]

If you have a regular ol keyboard I'd bind Ctrl to caps

[lament patrol]

I’ve always used evil-mode for vim keybinds in emacs. I was a vim user first and don’t want to give up that muscle memory

But I also bind caps to ctrl anyway, that makes the whole OS better

[raven ocean]

if there is a emacs + helix plugin, I'm going to emacs right now

[lament flower]

I used to use caps as ctrl, which helps, but homerow mods are even better

I use one-shot mods on alternate layers (so, a thumb key plus either middle finger on the homerow activates a sticky ctrl) and that works nicely as well

[bright lagoon]

Thanks for the tips. I have ctrl/caps switch but it wasn’t enough sadly. I will look into homerow mods

[lament flower]

this is a fantastic place to start https://precondition.github.io/home-row-mods

[long obsidian]

I bound capslock to control in the OS and that's all i need

[bright lagoon]

Whoa what a cool guide. Thank you!

[tardy horizon]

"doom enjoyer", "evil-mode", should i be worried?

[lament flower]

evil stands for Extensible VI Layer, don't worry about the acronym it's totally a coincidence

[tardy horizon]

That sounds like what someone who doesn't want their lair discovered would say

[lament flower]

no it doesn't

[restive terrace]

i just use the edge of my palm the press the Ctrl key. i don't know if that's an ergonomic typing positioning (someone told it isn't) but it works for me, as long as i'm using a keyboard with raised keys

[bright lagoon]

Interesting. You mean like the regular little Crtl key in the bottom left of the keyboard?

[restive terrace]

yes

i have small hands

[bright lagoon]

yeah i was about to say, even if i make a fist, my palm is way below the ctrl key

that's a neat idea though to use your palm

[restive terrace]

i have also used evil and meow in the past though

[bright lagoon]

i will check out meow thanks

[restive terrace]

it's a bit finicky to set up (i think the setup guide is outdated, irrc i had to change some stuff for it to work) but ultimately pretty good, and has good integration with other tools in emacs

[bright lagoon]

that's neat

[long obsidian]

Ive been meaning to try out meow and objed for a while

[fading badge]

neovim with kanagawa (wave variant) colorscheme!

[raven ocean]

what's that neotree?

looks like it's custom, sry

[fading badge]

it came with Astronvim, i didnt customize much from it

[raven ocean]

oooh, it's a distro

[fading badge]

yup

[raven ocean]

I'll see it later than, thx!

[magic pecan]

zed - custom theme derived from an app i have

[ashen spear]

nvim + "everviolet/nvim" theme

[bright lagoon]

Looks nice. What’s that font?

[ashen spear]

I think this?

[wintry bay]

I looove everviolet

Looks great

[ashen spear]

I use it only for weekends because it has pink on top and now I'm in my Gleam love phase xD for the week boring "catppuccin/nvim"

[foggy flare]

is it evergarden?

[ashen spear]

I guess, I think i copied from the repo

[foggy flare]

I like it, I'll try in nvim. Daily I use kanagawa