Highlighting for the current cell?

[frosencrantz]

Is there a way to set the highlighting for the current cell? I don't see a disp_* option that looks like it would allow users to add highlighting for current cell. I make mistakes in Visidata because I think the cursor is somewhere else.

[saulpw]

It's a combination of options.color_current_col and color_current_row.

[frosencrantz]

It doesn't look like they combine. It looks like color_current_row overrides the color_current_col.

I tried setting the current col to green, but it looks like the current cell is not shown in reverse green:
https://asciinema.org/a/2LEqjL4H0DD6WM2WyNomqwXwF?t=10

[saulpw]

Attributes (underline/reverse/bold) will combine. You can only have one color though (well, 2, fg and bg).

Also (and I don't remember changing this) for me on the current version, column color overrides row color.

[saulpw]

Try this:

TableSheet.colorizers += [
    CellColorizer(3, 'bold red on black', lambda s,c,r,v: c is s.cursorCol and r is s.cursorRow)
]

[frosencrantz]

I've tried it for several days now, and that works well. Thank you, @saulpw!

It is not possible to do only with options. It seems like an option for styling the current cell might of interest.

[saulpw]

Okay, options.color_current_cell has been added to vdplus!

[frosencrantz]

Sounds great, @saulpw ! Though it seems like it would be useful in the main Visidata.

[saulpw]

I mean isn't that true of everything? If anything I've been trying to move things out of main VisiData to make the core smaller and more tractable. But sometimes I wonder if vdplus and all plugins should be in 'main' VisiData, at least the repo if installed and/or enabled by default. The right scope for tools like this is not obvious.

[anjakefala]

@frosencrantz options.color_current_cell has now been moved to core VisiData!

[reagle]

Color specification is Xterm numbers/colors: https://www.ditig.com/256-colors-cheat-sheet

[frosencrantz]

Brilliant! Thank you, @anjakefala!

[curiousponge]

How do we make us of your change on core VisiData, @anjakefala? Sorry for this noob question, but the latest release seems to be on January. Help would be appreciated.

[anjakefala]

Hi @curiousponge!

Until the next release, the best way to use the current development version is pip3 git+https://github.com/saulpw/visidata.git

[curiousponge]

Thank you very much @anjakefala! It works. I have learned a new thing.