theme the selection colors

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/themes/helix.zig b/src/themes/helix.zig
index 26c156ff..3c2934f7 100644
--- a/src/themes/helix.zig
+++ b/src/themes/helix.zig
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@
 //! #121212 for the bars, 238 #444444 for the thumb, 235 #262626 for an
 //! unfocused box. No hue anywhere outside the syntax colors.
 //!
+//! The selection pair is the one thing not in that capture, because the capture
+//! has nothing selected in it: it is pardes.toml's own
+//! `"ui.selection" = { bg = "#80a0ff" }`, verbatim. helix names no foreground
+//! there — it tints the cell and lets the syntax colour ride, which at #bdbdbd
+//! on #80a0ff is not something to copy — so the ink is the page's own
+//! near-black, the other end of the theme's own two extremes.
+//!
 //! Shape: bg/fg are explicit rather than null, because "just really dark" must
 //! not depend on whose terminal it lands in — but `palette` stays null so a
 //! shell's ANSI indices still resolve to the host's own 16 colors. helix does
@@ -32,6 +39,8 @@ pub const theme = .{
     .name = "helix",
     .bg = .{ 0x08, 0x08, 0x08 },
     .fg = .{ 0xbd, 0xbd, 0xbd },
+    .sel_bg = .{ 0x80, 0xa0, 0xff },
+    .sel_fg = .{ 0x08, 0x08, 0x08 },
     .tag_bg = .{ 0x12, 0x12, 0x12 },
     .tag_fg = .{ 0x94, 0x94, 0x94 },
     .box = .{ 0x62, 0x62, 0x62 },