Syntax highlighting in preview mode

[danisvaliev001]

It will be super if preview mode will support syntax highlighting. As I see it can be implemented using LSP.

[antonmedv]

LSP for highlighting seems like a completely an overkill. Starting a LSP per language just for highlighting?

[danisvaliev001]

LSP for highlighting seems like a completely an overkill. Starting a LSP per language just for highlighting?

yeah, you're right. What do you think about using chroma library or wrapping bat tool?

[antonmedv]

About using chroma

[0xTadash1]

How about using environment variables, like WALK_REMOVE_CMD?

I use bat with a custom highlighting theme and indentation size.
This approach is convenient as it removes the need to configure similar settings in walk.

export WALK_PREVIEW_CMD='bat'

[antonmedv]

Problem is with tge way bubbletea works. We have to join together two strings. Getting output and joining with walk list is difficult.

[danisvaliev001]

Is embedding moar can help?

[antonmedv]

moar is very cool. The problem is with vertical joining.

[0xTadash1]

lipgloss seems to support layouting.

• Joining Paragraphs
• Rendering Tables

However, using them may require not a few changes to the current implementation...

[antonmedv]

Joining i what I use now. The problem is with "spilling". Here explanation with html:
List of files:

file.txt
another.txt
more.txt

And some highlighted code:

yaml: <green>string
with goes multiline</green>

We join the together:

file.txt     yaml: <green>string
another.txt  with goes multiline</green>
more.txt    

And now another.txt also will be colored green.

This also happens with we truncate part of the string with "closing" escape code:

file.txt     yaml: <green>string | </green>
another.txt                      |
more.txt                         |

IF we cut stuff of screen at | we will color another.txt and more.txt as green too.

[danisvaliev001]

What do you think about gocui?

[antonmedv]

Gocui looks cool.