Transparent background

[propri]

Is it possible to have a transparent background with the highlite colorschemes?

[Iron-E]

Absolutely! You can do that by setting the bg colors of your palette to "NONE" where applicable.

You may also have to adjust the winblend setting of individual plugins using their setup, and/or manually override the generated groups to include the blend attribute (e.g. groups.Foo.blend = 25 (see :h highlight-blend in neovim).

For example:

local Highlite = require 'highlite' --- @type Highlite

local palette, terminal_palette = Highlite.palette 'highlite' -- or derive a palette
palette.bg = 'NONE'
-- you may also want to set `bg_contrast_high` and/or `bg_contrast_low` to 'NONE', depending on your preferred look

local groups = Highlite.groups('highlite', palette)

-- override groups here

Highlite.generate('highlite-custom', groups, terminal_palette)

The complete example may also help put the above links in context.

Make sure your terminal is configured to have a transparent background as well, or else this will simply make Neovim fall back to your terminal's configured color.

[propri]

Thanks. I could easily modify solarized to have a transparent background with this!

local Highlite = require 'highlite' -- @type Highlite
local palette, terminal_palette = Highlite.palette 'solarized8'
palette.bg = 'NONE'

Highlite.generate('highlite-solarized8-transparent', Highlite.groups('default', palette), terminal_palette)