theme the selection colors

3 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/themes/acme.zig b/src/themes/acme.zig
index 925cacfb..87183ebc 100644
--- a/src/themes/acme.zig
+++ b/src/themes/acme.zig
@@ -5,10 +5,17 @@
 //! darkened for paper: index 7 (the "white" a shell writes most of its output
 //! in) is a mid grey, and 15 (bright white) is BLACK, because a program asking
 //! for the brightest color on a light page means "make this stand out".
+//!
+//! The selection is acme's own: plan9's DDarkyellow #eeee9e, the colour acme
+//! sweeps text with, and black ink over it — acme changes the paper under a
+//! selection and never the letters. Out of the same draw.h palette the
+//! scrollbar's #99994c (DYellowgreen) is already taken from.
 pub const theme = .{
     .name = "acme",
     .bg = .{ 0xff, 0xff, 0xea },
     .fg = .{ 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 },
+    .sel_bg = .{ 0xee, 0xee, 0x9e },
+    .sel_fg = .{ 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 },
     .tag_bg = .{ 0xea, 0xff, 0xff },
     .tag_fg = .{ 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 },
     .box = .{ 0x6e, 0x4f, 0xd0 },
diff --git a/src/themes/dark.zig b/src/themes/dark.zig
index df418982..5b39b1c7 100644
--- a/src/themes/dark.zig
+++ b/src/themes/dark.zig
@@ -3,10 +3,18 @@
 //! `bg`/`fg` NULL: the page keeps the host terminal's own default cell, so
 //! pardes sits inside whatever the surrounding terminal already looks like and
 //! only paints its chrome. Every other theme here dresses the whole page.
+//!
+//! The selection pair is the warm tan pardes used to paint EVERY theme's
+//! selection with, back when those six numbers were module constants. This is
+//! the theme it belongs to: a null page is the host terminal's, and a tan that
+//! reads as keyboard-driven on whatever dark cell that turns out to be is
+//! exactly what it was picked for.
 pub const theme = .{
     .name = "dark",
     .bg = null,
     .fg = null,
+    .sel_bg = .{ 0x4a, 0x3a, 0x1e },
+    .sel_fg = .{ 0xd8, 0xc8, 0xa8 },
     .tag_bg = .{ 0x2c, 0x2a, 0x3e },
     .tag_fg = .{ 0x96, 0x96, 0x96 },
     .box = .{ 0x6e, 0x4f, 0xd0 },
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 },