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Friday, September 23 2011

Inactive colors

By Sébastien Helleu on Friday, September 23 2011, 18:30 - core

New "inactive" colors have been added, to use a different text color for inactive windows or inactive lines (lines from merged buffer which is not selected).

Some options have been added to control display of inactive color, and of course inactive color themselves.

The first two options control wheter inactive colors are used for inactive windows or inactive lines in merged buffers:

  • /set weechat.look.color_inactive_window (default: off)
  • /set weechat.look.color_inactive_buffer (default: off)

Some options are used to specify if time/prefix_buffer/prefix/message will use inactive colors or not:

  • /set weechat.look.color_inactive_time (default: off)
  • /set weechat.look.color_inactive_prefix_buffer (default: on)
  • /set weechat.look.color_inactive_prefix (default: on)
  • /set weechat.look.color_inactive_message (default: on)

And finally, the three new colors used for inactive windows and inactive lines in merged buffers:

  • /set weechat.color.chat_inactive_window (default: darkgray, suggested: 245)
  • /set weechat.color.chat_inactive_buffer (default: darkgray, suggested: 245)
  • /set weechat.color.chat_prefix_buffer_inactive_buffer (default: darkgray, suggested: 58)

Sunday, August 28 2011

Beautify your WeeChat

By Sébastien Helleu on Sunday, August 28 2011, 16:38 - core

Some tips to beautify your WeeChat, using unicode chars and some colors.

Unicode chars (your locale must be UTF-8)

A full line for separator between prefix (usually nick) and messages:

/set weechat.look.prefix_suffix "│"

Full line for read marker:

/set weechat.look.read_marker_string "─"

Arrows for join/quit (be careful, impact on log files):

/set weechat.look.prefix_join "▬▬▶"
/set weechat.look.prefix_quit "◀▬▬"

String for bar item "buffer_filter" (WeeChat >= 0.3.6):

/set weechat.look.item_buffer_filter "•"

"More" indicators in bars (WeeChat >= 0.3.6):

/set weechat.look.bar_more_down "▼"
/set weechat.look.bar_more_left "◀"
/set weechat.look.bar_more_right "▶"
/set weechat.look.bar_more_up "▲"

Colors (for WeeChat >= 0.3.5 with a terminal supporting 256 colors)

Time with gray shading, and no colon separator (WeeChat >= 0.3.5):

/set weechat.look.buffer_time_format "${252}%H${245}%M${240}%S"

Note: updated in WeeChat 0.4.2, the syntax is now:

/set weechat.look.buffer_time_format "${color:252}%H${color:245}%M${color:240}%S"

Another "blue" for background of title and status bars:

/set weechat.bar.title.color_bg 60
/set weechat.bar.status.color_bg 60

Some dark colors for delimiters, host,...:

/set weechat.color.chat_delimiters 29
/set weechat.color.chat_host 24
/set weechat.color.chat_prefix_suffix 24
/set weechat.color.nicklist_away 244
/set weechat.color.separator 60
/set irc.color.reason_quit  244
/set irc.color.topic_new  36
/set irc.color.topic_old 244

More nick colors: add for example "31,35,38,40,49,63,70,80,92,99,112,126,130,138,142,148,160,162,167,169,174,176,178,184,186,210,212,215,247" to nick colors:

/set weechat.color.chat_nick_colors "cyan,magenta,green,brown,lightblue,default,lightcyan,lightmagenta,lightgreen,blue,31,35,38,40,49,63,70,80,92,99,112,126,130,138,142,148,160,162,167,169,174,176,178,184,186,210,212,215,247"

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Thursday, February 17 2011

Attributes for colors

By Sébastien Helleu on Thursday, February 17 2011, 20:00 - core

Attributes have been added for color options. List of supported attributes:

  • "*": bold
  • "!": reverse
  • "_": underline

Attributes are optional and can be added before color name/number/alias.

For self nick as white underlined:

/set weechat.color.chat_nick_self _white

For time in status bar as orange underlined with bold:

/set weechat.color.status_time *_214

Thursday, February 3 2011

Dynamic color pairs

By Sébastien Helleu on Thursday, February 3 2011, 19:00 - core

WeeChat now creates color pairs dynamically: when a color (foreground + background) is used on screen, a pair is created if it does not yet exist in pairs table.

Therefore, it's not needed any more to use /color add to add colors to use them in options. It is possible to use any terminal color by number in options. However, you can still create an alias on number with command /color alias.

Sunday, January 9 2011

256 colors

By Sébastien Helleu on Sunday, January 9 2011, 12:37 - core

WeeChat now supports 256 colors!

Using new command /color you can browse WeeChat and terminal colors, and define custom pairs. See documentation for more information.

Screenshot (click for full size):

256 colors

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