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# Themes
-First you'll need to place selected themes in your `themes` directory (i.e `~/.config/helix/themes`), the directory might have to be created beforehand.
+To use a theme add `theme = "<name>"` to your [`config.toml`](./configuration.md) at the very top of the file before the first section or select it during runtime using `:theme <name>`.
-To use a custom theme add `theme = <name>` to your [`config.toml`](./configuration.md) or override it during runtime using `:theme <name>`.
+## Creating a theme
-The default theme.toml can be found [here](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/theme.toml), and user submitted themes [here](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/runtime/themes).
+Create a file with the name of your theme as file name (i.e `mytheme.toml`) and place it in your `themes` directory (i.e `~/.config/helix/themes`). The directory might have to be created beforehand.
-## Creating a theme
+The names "default" and "base16_default" are reserved for the builtin themes and cannot be overridden by user defined themes.
-First create a file with the name of your theme as file name (i.e `mytheme.toml`) and place it in your `themes` directory (i.e `~/.config/helix/themes`).
+The default theme.toml can be found [here](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/theme.toml), and user submitted themes [here](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/runtime/themes).
Each line in the theme file is specified as below:
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ We use a similar set of scopes as
- `repeat` - `for`, `while`, `loop`
- `import` - `import`, `export`
- `return`
+ - `exception`
- `operator` - `or`, `in`
- `directive` - Preprocessor directives (`#if` in C)
- `function` - `fn`, `func`
@@ -171,8 +172,9 @@ We use a similar set of scopes as
- `bold`
- `italic`
- `link`
- - `url`
- - `label`
+ - `url` - urls pointed to by links
+ - `label` - non-url link references
+ - `text` - url and image descriptions in links
- `quote`
- `raw`
- `inline`