unknown option: colors

[Durev]

Expected Behavior

Same behavior as the icons option.

Current Behavior

An unknown option: colors error message is displayed when running lf. The colors file is loaded as expected though, whether the option is present or not.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install version 27
2. Use a minimal lfrc file with

set colors

Detailed Description

As per the wiki instructions, I originally set both of these options in my lfrc file:

set icons
set colors

The icons option seems to be working as expected, allowing to enable/disable the icons display.

The colors option is not recognized. After checking the eval.go file, I noticed that colors does not seem to be in the list of supported options.

Not sure if this is an error in the wiki, an implementation bug, or if I missed something? 😅

[YuCao16]

Same Issue here, but the colors actually works.

However, I found the default color scheme quite dim, I am currently using the vivid theme and the result is as follows. You can just comment out set colors in your lfrc and remove colors file. Then add export LS_COLORS="$(vivid generate molokai)" in your .zshrc, and run source ~/.zshrc to make it works.

I don't mean to offend by saying that the default colour scheme is a bit dim, in fact I enjoy lf so much, it's an amazing project.

PS. The theme I currently using is iceberg-dark.

[tejaswivg]

I have the same issue with powershell on windows.

[philippseith]

Same here with powershell on windows and lf r26

[halshar]

having same issue, hope it is fixed soon

[thisismygitrepo]

same

[halshar]

I'm using version 29 and the set colors option still throws error unkown option: colors, I have colors file in my ~/.config/lf directory along with icons file and icons work. Any idea how to fix colors?

[ilyagr]

According to the docs, the file should be named ~/.config/lf/colors exactly (and either C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\lf\colors or C:\ProgramData\lf\colors on Windows). There is no colors option

[halshar]

~/.config/lf ❯ ls
colors  icons  lfrc
~/.config/lf ❯

i have the necessary files, and I thought set colors is option to enable colors just like set icons

[ilyagr]

No, there is no such option (though I'm guessing based on this issue that it once existed). Colors are always on.

Perhaps it would help if you shared the colors file. Also, what exactly is wrong with the colors you are seeing?

See also the last sections of lf -doc (or here) and colors.example.

[halshar]

nothing wrong, I thought I had to explicitly enable colors to see them but as colors are always on there is no further issue. The colors and icons files are taken from the repository. Have used below commands from colors and icons section from wiki

mkdir -p ~/.config/lf
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gokcehan/lf/master/etc/colors.example -o ~/.config/lf/colors
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gokcehan/lf/master/etc/icons.example -o ~/.config/lf/icons

[gokcehan]

This was probably an error in the wiki. I don't think we ever had an option named colors as there is no need for such an option. Option icons is required since it changes the layout of panes. Colors are automatically enabled instead.

At some point we had an option colors256 to switch between 16 and 256 colors but we removed it a long time ago after we switched from termbox to tcell since there was no need for such an option anymore.

Let me know if there is mention of an option named colors somewhere in the wiki pages. Closing this issue for now.