Local themes¶
From the user point of view local themes are the regular themes with a specific scope where they are applied (i.e. specific vim window or specific kind of prompt). Used themes are defined in local_themes key.
Vim local themes¶
Vim is the only available extension that has a wide variaty of options for local themes. It is the only extension where local theme key refers to a function as described in local_themes value documentation.
This function always takes a single value named matcher_info which is the
same dictionary as segment_info dictionary. Unlike
segments it takes this single argument as a positional argument, not as
a keyword one.
Matcher function should return a boolean value: True if theme applies for
the given matcher_info dictionary or False if it is not. When one of the
matcher functions returns True powerline takes the corresponding theme at
uses it for the given window. Matchers are not tested in any particular order.
In addition to local_themes configuration key
developer of some plugin which wishes to support powerline without including his
code in powerline tree may use
powerline.vim.VimPowerline.add_local_theme() method. It accepts two
arguments: matcher name (same as in local_themes) and dictionary with theme. This dictionary is merged
with top theme and
powerline/themes/vim/__main__.json. Note that if user already specified
the matcher in his configuration file KeyError is raised.
Other local themes¶
Except for Vim only IPython and shells have local themes. Unlike Vim these themes are names with no special meaning (they do not refer to or cause loading of any Python functions):
Extension |
Theme name |
Description |
Shell |
continuation |
Shown for unfinished command (unclosed quote, unfinished cycle). |
select |
Shown for |
|
IPython |
in2 |
Continuation prompt: shown for unfinished (multiline) expression, unfinished class or function definition. |
out |
Displayed before the result. |
|
rewrite |
Displayed before the actually executed code when
|