Is there a way to use the colors specified in config.fish?

[Cokile]

fzf config in config.fish

set -x FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS '
--cycle 
--border
--height=90%
--layout=reverse 
--preview-window=wrap 
--marker=">"
--color=fg:#bdae93,bg:#32302f,hl:#83a598
--color=fg+:#ebdbb2,bg+:#3c3836,hl+:#83a598
--color=info:#fabd2f,prompt:#fabd2f,pointer:#8ec07c
--color=marker:#8ec07c,spinner:#8ec07c,header:#83a598
'

Using fzf directly:

Using fzf.fish:

As you can see, fzf.fish will use different colors. Is there a way to use the colors specified in config.fish? Or am I using fzf.fish in the wrong way?

Anyway, thanks for the awesome work. This tool really helps a lot.

[PatrickF1]

Hi @Cokile! The color in the second screenshot is coming from fd. If you look at https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish/blob/main/functions/__fzf_search_current_dir.fish#L6, you'll see that fd is colorizing the results before piping them to fzf. You can try setting fzf_fd_opts to do --color=never but I think it might not work because fd doesn't allow duplicate options.

Unfortunately, I can't just remove --color=always because it's a very helpful option for most people and I don't want people to miss out on it.

[Cokile]

Hi @PatrickF1! Thanks for the answer. The colors are helpful for me too. The problem is that the default colors have higher contrast, which makes it hard to read for me.

I've explored fd for a little while and it do can customize colors by set LS_COLORS. My current solution is using dircolors(which is part of coreutils) to set LS_COLORS:

eval (gdircolors -c ~/path/to/my/dircolors)

Pros:

1. No need to remove the useful --color=always
2. Unified output when using fzf.fish and fd separatedly

[PatrickF1]

Thanks for reporting back here @Cokile. I'll add this to the Cookbook!

[kidonng]

If you are using LS_COLORS you should definitely checkout vivid.