https://github.com/hlissner/emacs-solaire-mode
If only certain buffers could be so grossly incandescent.
https://github.com/hlissner/emacs-solaire-mode
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If only certain buffers could be so grossly incandescent.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/hlissner/emacs-solaire-mode
- Owner: hlissner
- License: mit
- Created: 2017-06-02T18:37:39.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-07-16T18:53:02.000Z (9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-29T19:06:50.781Z (26 days ago)
- Topics: emacs, emacs-packages, melpa
- Language: Emacs Lisp
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- Size: 240 KB
- Stars: 337
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 13
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Solaire mode
If only certain buffers could be so grossly incandescent.
`solaire-mode` is an aesthetic plugin designed to visually distinguish "real"
buffers (i.e. file-visiting code buffers where you do most of your work) from
"unreal" buffers (like popups, sidebars, log buffers, terminals, etc) by giving
the latter a slightly different -- often darker -- background:
This plugin accomplishes this by doing two things when activated:
+ `solaire-mode` buffer-locally remaps all the faces in
`solaire-mode-remap-alist`. e.g. `default` <-> `solaire-default-face`, and
`mode-line` <-> `solaire-mode-line-face`
The latter faces are the (presumably) "adjusted" faces.
+ `solaire-global-mode` will globally swap faces in `solaire-mode-swap-alist` IF
your active theme is in `solaire-mode-themes-to-face-swap`. Use this if you
think a theme has its designated solaire-*-face colors the wrong way around.
Praise the sun.
**Note:**
+ Uses `face-remapping-alist`, which other plugins may overwrite.
+ Tested mainly on Emacs 25.1+
+ Works in GUI and terminal Emacs (with themes that support it).
+ [Try jumping.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZGlaAxB7nI)
## Install
Solaire-mode is available on MELPA: `M-x package-install RET solaire-mode`
### Doom Emacs
Doom installs this package as part of the `:ui doom` module. No additional
configuration is needed.
## Configuration
Simply activate `solaire-global-mode`:
```emacs-lisp
(solaire-global-mode +1)
```
### Settings
+ `solaire-mode-real-buffer-fn` (default: `solaire-mode-real-buffer-p`): The
predicate function used to determine if a buffer is "real" or not. It takes no
arguments and must return truthy for buffers where `solaire-mode` should *not*
be activated in.
+ `solaire-mode-remap-alist`: An alist mapping original faces to replacement
faces, which will be buffer-locally remapped in any buffer `solaire-mode` is
enabled in.
+ `solaire-mode-swap-alist`: An alist mapping original faces to replacement
faces, which will be swapped globally if current theme is in
`solaire-mode-themes-to-face-swap`.
+ `solaire-mode-themes-to-face-swap` (default: `()`): A list of themes to swap
faces in `solaire-mode-swap-alist` for. Can be symbols or regexps.
### Jolly cooperation with other plugins
+ By default, `solaire-mode` remaps the mode-line faces. This interferes with
certain mode-line packages like telephone-line or powerline, but works fine
for doom-modeline. To disable this behavior use:
```elisp
(dolist (face '(mode-line mode-line-inactive))
(setf (alist-get face solaire-mode-remap-modeline) nil))
```
+ It is up to themes to decide whether unreal buffers (i.e. non-file-visiting)
are lighter or darker than real buffers. If you don't like their arrangement,
add that theme to `solaire-mode-themes-to-face-swap`:
```elisp
(add-to-list 'solaire-mode-themes-to-face-swap 'doom-vibrant)
```
Then solaire-mode will swap all the faces in `solaire-mode-swap-alist` (for
example, swapping the `default` face with `solaire-default-face`).
You can add a regexp to `solaire-mode-themes-to-face-swap` to affect a family
of themes, e.g.
```elisp
(add-to-list 'solaire-mode-themes-to-face-swap "^doom-")
```
## Theme support for solaire-mode
`solaire-mode` will disable itself if the active theme doesn't support it, but
to ensure support a theme must at least change `solaire-default-face`'s
`:background`. My recommendation is that it is be *slightly* darker or lighter
than `default`'s background.
For example `doom-one` (seen in the screenshot above) prefers
`solaire-default-face` be darker than `default`:
Others, like doom-vibrant prefer the opposite:
For full support, themes can customize the following faces:
| Face | Remapped face |
|---------------------------------|----------------------|
| solaire-default-face | default |
| solaire-fringe-face | fringe |
| solaire-line-number-face | line-number |
| solaire-hl-line-face | hl-line |
| solaire-org-hide-face | org-hide, org-indent |
| solaire-mode-line-face | mode-line |
| solaire-mode-line-inactive-face | mode-line-inactive |
| solaire-header-line-face | header-line |
## Themes that support solaire-mode out of the box
The only (known) themes to support solaire-mode are:
+ [doom-themes]
+ [nano-theme]
+ [modus-themes]
+ [parchment]
+ [spacemacs-theme]
+ [stimmung-themes]
+ [vscode-dark-plus-theme]
+ [wilmersdorf-theme]
If you know of more, feel free to PR them.
[doom-themes]: https://github.com/hlissner/emacs-doom-themes
[modus-themes]: https://gitlab.com/protesilaos/modus-themes
[nano-theme]: https://github.com/404cn/nano-theme.el
[parchment]: https://github.com/ajgrf/parchment
[spacemacs-theme]: https://github.com/nashamri/spacemacs-theme
[stimmung-themes]: https://github.com/motform/stimmung-themes
[vscode-dark-plus-theme]: https://github.com/ianpan870102/vscode-dark-plus-emacs-theme
[wilmersdorf-theme]: https://github.com/ianpan870102/wilmersdorf-emacs-theme