is it possible to create plugin which overrides colorschemes background colors ?

[ShamanicArts]

I previously attempted to write a plugin that would force transparency background on all colorschemes ( I like switching colorschemes regularly ), however I wasnt able to get anythign working. is there anyway I could achieve this with native behaviour or would I need to fork the project & make a pr to add this behaviour?

[cutelisp]

Afaik to make a color scheme background transparent you can edit the config file and delete the default background color.

Example:
color-link default "#C5C8C6,#1D1F21" Solid background
color-link default "#C5C8C6" Transparent background

What approach you took when trying to write the plugin?
Not sure if a plugin can do that, perhaps the plugin could run a shell script that would edit the color schemes files?

[ShamanicArts]

oh, thats not a bad idea as far as approach, I hadnt even thought of using a shell script to edit the files but that would definitely achieve the result, it feels a bit of a brute force . I was just looking through the provided lua & go bindings to see if anythign would give me access to the background variable but I couldnt find anything that seemed to allow for it . I was mainly attempting based on the contents of ^E help color Omit color-link default "[fg color],[bg color]" will make the background color match the terminal's, and transparency if set. . but from what i could gather in their plugin based access to the styling syntax is not yet accessible In the future, plugins may also be able to use color groups for styling.

[usfbih8u]

Transparent background does not exist as far as I know, but you can make the colorscheme use the one in your terminal as the background. So, if your terminal has transparency and you don't set a background in any color-link, as @cutelisp suggests, it will work.

Check the simple colorscheme; you will see that it does not use a background in most of them.

This solution that I am going to suggest may or may not work for the colorschemes you use; it all depends on the use of 'background' in those colorschemes.

The solution is based on the 'include' directive and overriding 'default' (or more).

You need to create a new colorscheme file that includes your main colorscheme and the line to change the background color. Include your colorscheme at the top and then this line after color-link default "red,green" to override the previous values; now the background is green and the foreground is red (I used green to easily check if this works; some colorschemes use too many background colors and look horrible, while others do not).

```
# file: custom-colorscheme.micro
include "YOUR-COLORSCHEME" # name without '.micro'
color-link default "red,green"
```

You can override more color-links if you want; by overriding a few, you can achieve a nice result for all the colorschemes you use.

NOTE: This forces you to change the colorscheme in this file, so set colorscheme cannot be used anymore. You can create a plugin to change the contents of the file or use a shell script (I do this to change the "main" colorscheme).

Maybe this approach is useful to you or other users.

If the above does not work and you have to modify the colorschemes manually, check this response.

[ShamanicArts]

thank you so much! will most likely create a small plugin & translate some colorschemes I like so I can change between them easily