[Feature request] Sort tinty list

[alix-artus]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I am using the following command to preview themes in my terminal:

$ tinty list | fzf --preview "tinty apply {}; ~/tinted-shell/colortest {}"

The list is ordered alphabetically, meaning that themes like base16-atelier-estuary and base16-atelier-estuary-light are next to each other. When browsing, switching from a light theme to a dark theme is quite violent for the eyes, making the browsing experience pretty bad.

Describe the solution you'd like

A way to sort the themes, from dark background to light background for example, would fix this issue.

A command like:

$ tinty colortest

would also be quite nice.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• An alternative would be to implement a command like:

$ tinty preview

• Use base16-shell-preview.

[JamyGolden]

Have you tried using tinty info? I can look at modifying tinty info to be more interactive instead of a long list

[alix-artus]

I tried tinty info but the display does not seem to work well in my terminal (macos default terminal).

The main point is to have some ways to call tinty apply to check how the theme is being rendered with an opened vim or in tmux.

[windowsrefund]

I've got shell alias I wrote which may be of some value to you but I can't speak to how it would interact with vim/neovim as I do not use a base16 theme in my editor. As you can see, this also doesn't "see" any custom themes you have have setup.

alias tint='tinty list | \
fzf \
--height 30% \
--info hidden \
--border rounded \
--cycle \
--bind "enter:execute(tinty apply {})+reload(tinty list)"'

Though not perfect, you can build upon the above by adding one or more excludes by way of grep -v. For example, I know I don't want to see any of the windows themes:

alias tint='tinty list | grep -v windows \
fzf \
--height 30% \
--info hidden \
--border rounded \
--cycle \
--bind "enter:execute(tinty apply {})+reload(tinty list | grep -v windows)"'

It's not perfect as we're filtering based on theme name rather than the variant. That said, it may provide a starting place for something more robust. Perhaps a more mature version would add add an additional keybinding to dump the selected scheme into a excludes file which would be used instead of the hard-coded string...

[JamyGolden]

Something worth mentioning (maybe this will solve your needs), we have a gallery page which is created by rendering the theme in vim and then converting that to html, so you can preview themes, albeit with static content: https://tinted-theming.github.io/base16-gallery/

[alix-artus]

The gallery is really nice but please note that it has the same issue than the original issue: it is sorted by alphabetical order as opposed to an ordering like from dark background to light background. Sorting by name is useful when you know already what you are looking for. But when someone looks for a new theme, sorting based on colours or background darkness would probably be much more useful.

PS: a dark background in the gallery would probably help to highlight each individual themes.

[JamyGolden]

I still need to add to tinty, but I've created a PR which adds a "group by variant" and "darkmode" feature: tinted-theming/base16-gallery#11