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   Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 04:57:00 JST Niki Tonsky

   Been using Zed for remote development and figured I should port Alabaster. IMO looks cute

   https://github.com/tonsky/zed-theme-alabaster

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 06:51:14 JST Niki Tonsky

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     • Mark Dominus

     @mjd Will make a dark one too!

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     Mark Dominus (mjd@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 06:51:16 JST Mark Dominus

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     @nikitonsky I installed for Zed for the first time yesterday. When I saw the built-in theme with its violent secondary colors I said “Geez, I'm going to have to fix this right away. I wonder if Tonsky has something that can help.”

     So, great timing, thanks!

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 08:27:03 JST Niki Tonsky

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     • Mark Dominus

     Aaaand dark version is available now too! // cc @mjd

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 08:35:15 JST Niki Tonsky

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     • Mark Dominus

     @mjd If you are talking about Python, you are in luck! Zed for Python does distinguish those!

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     Mark Dominus (mjd@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 08:35:17 JST Mark Dominus

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     @nikitonsky Excellent, thanks. I prefer dark.

     My only complaint about the current one is that it colors docstrings like regular strings, rather than like comments.

     I realize that in principle they're strings, and it might be syntactically difficult to distinguish docstrings from regular strings that happen to be triple-quoted.

     But I think a better compromise would be to render all triple-quoted strings as comments.

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 17:32:50 JST Niki Tonsky

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     • Mark Dominus

     @mjd make sure you are at least up to this commit https://github.com/tonsky/zed-theme-alabaster/commit/36e95b0443759844bb7af0dc8faf629e14af05b8

     and run "zed: rebuild dev extension"

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     Mark Dominus (mjd@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 17:32:51 JST Mark Dominus

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     @nikitonsky I'm looking at Zed with Alabaster, and the docstrings are colored like strings, not like comments:

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 17:33:34 JST Niki Tonsky

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     • Steve Dunham

     @dunhamsteve good analogy!

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     Steve Dunham (dunhamsteve@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 17:33:36 JST Steve Dunham

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     @nikitonsky It's like someone took a highlighter to my code and marked the important bits. Maybe this will encourage me to update my comments.