brenoprata10/nvim-highlight-colors

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CREATED

2022-07-17

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nvim-highlight-colors

Highlight colors within Neovim

Features

  • Realtime color highlighting
  • Supports hex, rgb, hsl, CSS variables, and Tailwind CSS
  • Multiple rendering modes: background, foreground, and virtual text

Usage

Install via your preferred package manager:

'brenoprata10/nvim-highlight-colors'

Initialize the plugin:

-- Ensure termguicolors is enabled if not already
vim.opt.termguicolors = true

require('nvim-highlight-colors').setup({})

Options

require("nvim-highlight-colors").setup {
    ---Render style
    ---@usage 'background'|'foreground'|'virtual'
    render = 'background',

    ---Set virtual symbol (requires render to be set to 'virtual')
    virtual_symbol = '■',

    ---Highlight named colors, e.g. 'green'
    enable_named_colors = true,

    ---Highlight tailwind colors, e.g. 'bg-blue-500'
    enable_tailwind = false,

    ---Set custom colors
    ---Label must be properly escaped with '%' to adhere to `string.gmatch`
    --- :help string.gmatch
    custom_colors = {
        { label = '%-%-theme%-primary%-color', color = '#0f1219' },
        { label = '%-%-theme%-secondary%-color', color = '#5a5d64' },
    }
}

Render modes

Examples shown use enable_tailwind = true

Background

Foreground

Virtual text

Commands

Command Description
:HighlightColors On Turn highlights on
:HighlightColors Off Turn highlights off
:HighlightColors Toggle Toggle highlights

Commands are also available in lua:

require("nvim-highlight-colors").turnOn()
require("nvim-highlight-colors").turnOff()
require("nvim-highlight-colors").toggle()