ubmit/night-owl-light-bat

🦇🦉 a port of Night Owl Light theme to Bat

Night Owl Light theme

Adding the themes

1. Create a theme folder in bat's configuration directory by running:

mkdir -p "$(bat --config-dir)/themes"

2. Copy the theme files from this repository:

wget -P "$(bat --config-dir)/themes" https://github.com/ubmit/night-owl-light-bat/raw/main/Night%20Owl%20Light.tmTheme

3. Rebuild bat's cache:

bat cache --build

4. Run bat --list-themes, and check if the themes are present in the list.

Usage

There are two ways to get bat to default to Night Owl Light:

Configuration file

Edit your configuration file, located at bat --config-file (usually ~/.config/bat/config):

--theme="Night Owl Light"

Environment variable

You can alternatively use the BAT_THEME environment variable. Export the environment variable inside your shell's configuration file: BAT_THEME="Night Owl Light".

The method to export the variable depends on your shell.

Extra: using bat as a manpager

See https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#man for instructions on how to use bat for your man output.