Doesn't work very well with light color scheme about bit HOT 11 CLOSED

@Hultner Thanks for filing this issue. Agreed that bit can be difficult to read in some contexts. Currently, I'd like to avoid config files if possible.

One option is to have "absolute" colors that don't change due to the background however AFAIK that's not possible with https://github.com/c-bata/go-prompt.

Another option is to have two themes a light & dark them that changes based on the terminal background color. Surprisingly this isn't possible with all terminals AFAIK.

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A popular tool with "pretty" syntax that handles this quite nicely is bat¹, they use a $BAT_THEME environment variable which in my opinion is much nicer than a configuration file. They also have built in support of base16.

I'm not very familiar with go but a quick search turned up this library, might not be useful but I'll leave it here anyway.

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I've added an experimental "inverted" theme. To enable set your env variable:

BIT_THEME=inverted

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@chriswalz Is this released yet? it still looks just as bad, just slightly different on bit v0.8.2

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Here's what I see

bit --version
bit version 0.8.2

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I guess on your end it's the "Selected" color that is problematic. It's possible some colors aren't getting set

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I've never coded go but I might be able to give it a go and see if I can create something reasonable looking if the build tool chain is easy/fast to set up. Tell me if that would be appreciated.

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Yes, definitely take a look. Look for the function SuggestionPrompt( in util.go.

Once you clone or fork the repo & install go. run BIT_THEME=inverted go run main.go

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@chriswalz I gave it a go (some Gothenburg humour right there), I made two themes to compare, I think it might turn out better this way since it's not always the same theme that works everywhere. Anyway here's a first screenshot. I took them with night shift on at first so I'm redoing the other colour themes without to give a good picture of how it looks.

The inverted one is more inspired by the original theme, while the monochrome one is just a brutalist minimalist approach and simply uses the defaults.

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Okay here's a full load of screenshots, I didn't test everything but at least of these two additional themes is readable on every combination I've tried, a good dozen of teams seems reasonable.

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@chriswalz Added a PR #71

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