Error when adding theme to `~/.config/babi/theme.json` about babi HOT 8 CLOSED

One line json file :(

The thing that didn't work is "settings":{"foreground":"white","background":"#E05252"}}, to help conversation ; assuming that the color parser just removed the first char w (thinking it should just be a #) and tried to parse the hi characters as a hex number

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here's what it looks like for me once I fixed white -- I also did black at the same time, I don't suspect other named colors will come up but I'll try a bunch of themes later to verify 👍

thanks again for the report!

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whoa, weird! it looks like ~some coloring is taking but it's greyscaled everything?

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That was indeed the issue. I formatted the json to a multilne file and replaced "white" with "#FFFFFF". Now there is no error but still no syntax highlighting.

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hmmm yeah the color parser assumes they're hex codes so that's the first issue -- as for no syntax highlighting after that it probably means the grammar didn't match? can you ls ~/.local/share/babi/textmate_syntax/ there should be a bunch of files in there from running ./bin/download-syntax

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~/.local/share/babi/textmate_syntax/ looks fine to me all files are there.
I think the problem might be caused by my SSH-client and not the server.

• When using windows' cmd to SSH into my remote server the syntax highlighting works perfectly fine with all file types and different themes.
• When using PuTTY or MobaXterm the syntax highlighting does not work at all. In PuTTY 256-color mode is activated, MobaXterm should have this enabled as a default.

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ah, if you echo $TERM it probably was xterm or something without sufficient colors -- it needs to be a >=256 color compatible terminal to display colors. I wonder why putty's 256color mode didn't work though, perhaps the TERM it enables isn't recognized by curses?

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echo $TERM returns xterm-256color in MobaXterm even though it looks like this.

I think this issue is not related to babi it's some kind of problem with MobaXterms color modes...
Thanks for your help and your great work I am looking forward to using babi as my nr 1 text editor!

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