Changing default colors for AUTO_MENU_LIST

[vszitkey]

Hi, I would like to use AUTO_MENU_LIST option, but not with the default colors.

Way to do this was mentioned in #582. But I no longer see COMPLETION_COLOR_STARTING, COMPLETION_COLOR_DESCRIPTION and COMPLETION_LIST_BACKGROUND_COLOR variables, so I tried to change them with following attempts, but without any success.

LineReader reader = LineReaderBuilder.builder()
.terminal(this.terminal)
.option(LineReader.Option.AUTO_MENU_LIST, true)
.variable(COMPLETION_STYLE_LIST_BACKGROUND, Colors.rgbColor("white"))
.variable(COMPLETION_STYLE_BACKGROUND, Colors.rgbColor("white"))
.completer(completer)
.build();

Most likely I am missing something trivial, any advice? Thanks

[mattirn]

@vszitkey , the LineReader variables that control menu list styles have a prefix COMPLETION_STYLE_LIST_ as an example COMPLETION_STYLE_LIST_STARTING, COMPLETION_STYLE_LIST_DESCRIPTION , COMPLETION_STYLE_LIST_BACKGROUND etc, see more details in #617.

[vszitkey]

Thanks for answer, I tried following ("white" was chosen so that I can notice the change):

LineReader reader = LineReaderBuilder.builder()
.terminal(this.terminal)
.option(LineReader.Option.AUTO_MENU_LIST, true)
.variable(COMPLETION_STYLE_LIST_BACKGROUND, Colors.rgbColor("white"))
.variable(COMPLETION_STYLE_LIST_DESCRIPTION, Colors.rgbColor("white"))
.variable(COMPLETION_STYLE_LIST_STARTING, Colors.rgbColor("white"))
.variable(COMPLETION_STYLE_LIST_SELECTION, Colors.rgbColor("white"))
.variable(COMPLETION_STYLE_LIST_GROUP, Colors.rgbColor("white"))
.completer(completer)
.build();

but colors remain the same as before.
What am I missing?

[mattirn]

You have to assign to the COMPLETION_STYLE_LIST_<name> variable a string style value that the StyleResolver is able to resolve.

The style value has the following syntax:

<style1>[,<style2>[,style3]...]

where in <stylei> you can define foreground/background color as

f|fg|foreground:<color>
b|bg|backgroung:<color>

where <color> can be defined as eight color name (white, black, blue, red, ...), 256 color name (~grey0, ~navyblue, ~darkblue, ~blue3, ...) or color index (0 - 255).

You can define also RGB colors as:

f-rgb|fg-rgb|foreground-rgb:<color>
b-rgb|bg-rgb|backgroung-rgb:<color>

where <color> is x<rgb>} or #<rgb> and <rgb> is a 24 bits hexadecimal color.

In addition to colors you can set also ansi styles by setting <stylei> values:

blink, bold, conceal, crossed-out, faint, hidden, inverse, inverse-neg, italic or underline.

See more details in the StyleResolver javadoc and StyleResolver.

[vszitkey]

Thank you very much @mattirn :)