jeanguyomarch/eovim

defining theme instead of passing it as parameter?

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Kampouse commented

Hey i was digging around your project i been able to modify my theme but there a thing that i was curious to see if this possible: keep your "edited" theme like you only nead to do a eovim --theme
i tried to rename my new file as the 'default' one and eovim did not like that returning me with "permission denied "while not running it as a sudoer :(
ounce after that you will only nead to use eovim to use your edited theme

and also i made a eovim theme tutorial...

jeanguyomarch commented

Hi, sorry for not acknowleding your issue, it seemed to have vanished from my mind.
If I understood correctly:

  • you have written your own theme (congrats :D)
  • eovim loads, by default, the default theme
  • you would like that eovim loads your custom theme, without having to manually specify --theme=/the/path/to/your/theme.

Without modifying eovim, I think there is no way around this.
I can understand this is indeed not very convenient.

A simple "solution" would be for eovim to rely on an environment variable (e.g. EOVIM_THEME=/the/path/to/your/theme) but I don't find it very "gracious".
Indeed, eovim is configured through vimscript, and I not quite happy with such "exceptions". Ideally, the theme could be provided through vimscript. However, this maybe require "hot-loading" the edje theme, I am not sure how difficult this is. I can try, though, it seems like a nice feature.

I'd propose the following use-case. Please let me know if you find it acceptable:

There should be two directories for themes:

  1. <install_prefix>/eovim/themes/: this one currently exists, but probably requires root permissions;
  2. <home>/.config/eovim/themes/: this one does not exist, and would not require root permissions.

The list of available themes would be constructed as follows:

  1. read the .edj files in directory 1.
  2. read the .edj files in directory 2., overriding existing themes.

A theme could be selected through vimscript (i.e. init.vim) with:

let g:eovim_theme = "<theme name>"

Where <theme name> would be something like default or a custom name.
If g:eovim_theme contains the path to a .edj (e.g. /tmp/dev/theme.edj) file, then this file is taken. So there would be two lookup options (ie. by name or by path).

jeanguyomarch commented

Oh, and I would love to see the eovim theme tutorial you mentioned.