Scheme colours for line numbers and tab characters?

[Fatbat]

I'm making a variation on the Twilight scheme and I'm trying to figure out how to alter the colour and/or transparency of the indenting tabs/spaces and the line numbers. I can see that they are tied to the general text colour...

<key>foreground</key>
<string>#FFF</string>

and that they are a level of transparency based on that. Is it possible to colour them independently and/or change their transparency? If so, what is the key for them?

Thanks.

[Fatbat]

OK, after much searching I found you can change the line numbers with...

<key>gutterForeground</key>

Now, if I could just figure out how to change the indenting characters.

[atomi]

Good job on posting an update Fatbat.

I've been here for a few months and I haven't seen anyway to change transparency of indentations through settings.
I can suggest checking the Theme - Default folder it might be in there somewhere.

[Fatbat]

I found lots of references to "whitespace" while searching but adding...

<key>whitespace</key>
<string>#FF0000</string> << or whatever colour you like

doesn't have any effect

[facelessuser]

Option 1: The only way to highlight white space with your color scheme to a particular color is to go through everyone of your syntax languages and scope all white space with a particular scope and then use that scope in your color scheme and highlight the foreground and/or background to your preferences...not very practical.

Option 2: Write a plugin that will automatically highlight all of your white space. Or use an existing plugin that can facilitate your desires.

[nick.]

I've seen some schemes with

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<key>invisibles</key>


but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

You should be able to create scopes that change the color for whitespace characters. Unfortunately you'll have to do so for each language definition:
Plain text.tmLanguage

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<dict>
   <key>match</key>
   <string>^\t+</string>
   <key>name</key>
   <string>meta.tab</string>
</dict>


Your scheme.tmTheme

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<dict>
   <key>scope</key>
   <string>meta.tab</string>
   <key>settings</key>
   <dict>
      <key>foreground</key>
      <string>#FF0000</string>
   </dict>
      
</dict>


Looks like faceless had the same idea. I agree that it isn't the best way, but it'll work!

[Fatbat]

Hmmm, that looks like a bit of work. I too see the "invisibles" key in my scheme, but it doesn't seem to do anything at all. Maybe something that will get sorted in a future update.

[Fatbat]

I figured it out! If you simply add a transparency to your foreground key all the indentation dims but the main text doesn't. edit: seems to only affect tabs in the whitespace, not spaces.

So in my case I have...

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<key>foreground</key>
<string>#E8E0CE40</string>


and voilà! Indentation is perfect

[old9]

Thanks for sharing this Fatbat!

[Eduan]

That's awesome Fatbat! Thanks for sharing this.