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| author | Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> | 2019-10-13 10:09:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> | 2019-10-13 10:09:21 -0700 |
| commit | 3280e66def4d41d7c8cb503c4e59a4eacd71268e (patch) | |
| tree | 196a5f95a9d382001c4050c4359231e196fe2714 /README.md | |
| parent | f89300a69f531f630ff7e053b39ceddb9a6a3283 (diff) | |
Improve documentation for adding new theme/language
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@@ -80,7 +80,14 @@ All git commands that display diff output should now display syntax-highlighted ## Supported languages and themes -Delta supports the same languages and themes as [bat](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat), included here as the files `assets/syntaxes.bin` and `assets/themes.bin`. Please see the [bat](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) documentation for instructions on how to create new versions of these files. +To add new laguages/color themes to delta, the process is + +1. Clone the delta repo +2. Create new versions of the files `assets/syntaxes.bin` and/or `assets/themes.bin`. Please see the [bat](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#adding-new-syntaxes--language-definitions) documentation for instructions on how to create new versions of these files. You will need to copy them into the `assets/` directory of the delta git repo after creating them. +3. Recompile delta: `cargo build --release` +4. Now you have a new delta executable at `target/release/delta` that should feature your new language/theme (use `--list-languages` / `--list-themes` to check). + +Delta does not currently support reading these files dynamically from `~/.config` as `bat` does, but this is a feature that could be added. ## 24 bit color |