Syntax highlight theme on Files tab

[extrawurst]

Discussed in #1928

^{Originally posted by VasilisManol October 18, 2023}
Hi,

Is there a way to change the theme used in Files tab for syntax highlighting? It is unreadable on any terminal with light background. The rest of the GUI is rendered nicely on a light terminal. It is just the opened file under Files and only on light background that is very pale and unreadable.

[extrawurst]

actually good point. this is currently controlled by syntect default theme. this should be possible to overwrite with a separate highlighting theme

[Joe-Zer0]

It looks like syntect uses tmTheme files to change it's them. In my case I would like the colors from my terminal to be used for syntax highlighting. Here is the theme file from bat that does this - https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/assets/themes/ansi.tmTheme. I there a way to allow gitui to accept a tmTheme file?

[extrawurst]

@Joe-Zer0 not yet. Could you make that a separate issue please?