Themes & syntax¶
Themes¶
Themes are data, not constants. Built in: Dark Modern, Dark+,
Light+ and Monokai, in that order — Dark Modern leads the picker, and
an install with no theme in its settings starts on Dark+. Switch with
Cmd+Shift+T / Ctrl+Shift+T, or from View → Color Theme….
Any VS Code color theme works: drop its .json into
and it appears in the picker. The loader reads the colors map (chrome and the
16 ANSI terminal colors) and tokenColors (syntax); anything the file omits
falls back to the built-in Dark+ or Light+ value, per the theme's type.
The terminal palette is not decoration: git status letters, diff tints and the editor's gutter marks are all taken from it, so a theme colors them sanely without knowing anything about Yara Code.
Syntax¶
75 syntect grammars ship in the binary, plus bundled ones for TypeScript/TSX,
TOML, Kotlin, Swift, Dart, Dockerfile, Protobuf and GraphQL, and an alias table
pointing the remaining common extensions at their closest relative (.mjs →
JavaScript, .ex → Ruby, .zig → C, .ini → TOML…).
Drop any .sublime-syntax into
to add or replace a language; user grammars win. They load into their own set, so startup stays at ~40 ms instead of the ~1.2 s a full relink would cost.
Icons¶
The terminal frontend uses Unicode glyphs by default. For terminals with sparse font coverage: