InfiniteRed

Download Theme (once downloaded, simply double click on the file to install) I created the IR_Black theme, and some people asked for a white version of it. So instead of doing it manually I thought a quick Ruby script to make all the colors darker would work well. I started by creating a new theme, then I changed all the foreground colors to their negative. This worked well and maintained the contrast between the different colors, but it changed the whole look of the theme (changing blues to reds, etc.), which I didn't want. Then I tried converting the colors from RGB into HSL and then inverting the L (which is lightness or luminance depending on what you read); this did what I wanted. TextMate stores its colors in HTML Hex triplet format (#FF0000), so all I needed to do was parse those out of the original file, convert the color into HSL, then invert it by subtracting it from its max (which is 1). I used the color-tools gem to do the color manipulation, and it worked well.

require 'rubygems'
require 'color'  # gem install color-tools

regx = /(foregrounds*?)(#.+?)()/

new_xml = STDIN.read.gsub(regx) do
    hsl = Color::RGB.from_html($2).to_hsl
    hsl.l = 1 - hsl.l

    $1 + hsl.html + $3
end

puts new_xml

After I created the script above (which I named c_theme.rb), I just piped the original theme to it and created the new theme:

cat IR_Black.tmTheme | ruby c_theme.rb >> IR_White.tmTheme

I then changed the backcolors to white, and manually tweaked it some. It's much harder to make a white theme, because you don't see the color difference as easily, so it's hard to find colors that stand out, without being too glaring. I personally don't like white themes much, but I think I captured the essence of the black theme with my conversion. Example Ruby code using the theme: