🦇 Living Code for bat

Calm slate. Living color.
Living Code for bat: TextMate .tmTheme syntax themes, also used by delta, in four color flavors.

Installation · Flavors · Configuration · All ports

Previews

Night Dark · full palette	Frost Dark · softer chroma
Paper Light · near-white slate	Signal Dark · teal accent

Select any preview to view the image at full size.

Installation

Requires bat. Download the four themes into bat's theme folder and rebuild its cache:

curl -fsSL --create-dirs --output-dir "$(bat --config-dir)/themes" -O "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/living-code-theme/bat/main/living-code-{night,frost,paper,signal}.tmTheme" && bat cache --build
bat --list-themes | grep living-code

Then pick a flavor with --theme, or make it the default in $(bat --config-dir)/config:

echo '--theme="living-code-night"' >> "$(bat --config-dir)/config"

delta reads its syntax themes from bat's cache. Use the delta port: its install also adds these themes, and each delta flavor selects the matching syntax theme together with diff backgrounds, headers and gutters.

Sublime Text has its own native color scheme: use the Sublime Text port.

Other tmTheme readers (TextMate, syntect-based tools) can load the same living-code-*.tmTheme files directly.

Flavors

Expand a flavor for its full-size preview and activation instructions.

Night · Dark · full palette

After installing the themes and rebuilding bat's cache:

bat --theme="living-code-night"

Frost · Dark · softer chroma

After installing the themes and rebuilding bat's cache:

bat --theme="living-code-frost"

Paper · Light · near-white slate

After installing the themes and rebuilding bat's cache:

bat --theme="living-code-paper"

Signal · Dark · teal accent

After installing the themes and rebuilding bat's cache:

bat --theme="living-code-signal"

Configuration

See bat's documentation for application settings and reload behavior. Rerun bat cache --build after updating the theme files. The activation instructions above identify each supported flavor; keep your other application configuration.

Compatibility

This port supplies TextMate .tmTheme files, not bat itself. bat and delta load them from bat's theme cache; any other tmTheme reader can use the files directly.

Contributing

Found a problem? Open an issue with the app version, the flavor and a screenshot. Want Living Code somewhere else? Request a port.

Pull requests are welcome. Keep this README, port.json and images/ in sync, and use real screenshots of the app, never mockups.

_{🦎 One chameleon, many habitats. Part of Living Code.}

License

_{© Elliot Luque}