Protesilaos Stavrou

Emacs: the Modus themes palette previews are tabulated

I just pushed a massive change to the Modus themes Git repository which makes the “preview palette” commands use tabulated-list-mode. This means that the output consists of actual rows and columns and, more importantly, the user can sort by the given column (click on the column name or do M-x describe-mode to learn about the relevant key bindings).

As part of the redesign, I also included an indicator about which entries in the palette constitute “semantic colour mappings”, as opposed to “named colours”. Named colours are those which correspond to a hexadecimal RGB value, like (blue-warmer "#3548cf"), while the mappings will point to such named colours like (fg-link blue-warmer).

But enough of this! Here is a picture showing two buffers. In the left window we have the output of M-x modus-themes-list-colors. In the right window it is the same command with a C-u prefix argument to show only the semantic color mappings. Notice that the buffers are named after the theme they are previewing and the scope of the preview.

Modus themes palette preview in a tabulated list

The command modus-themes-list-colors prompts for a Modus theme to preview. Whereas modus-themes-list-colors-current acts directly using the current Modus theme.

Use these to design your own palette overrides (check the manual for details) or simply to copy the colour values you are interested in.

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