## Colorschemes
-To change your colorscheme, press CtrlE in micro to bring up the command
+To change your colorscheme, press Ctrl-e in micro to bring up the command
prompt, and type:
```
Micro comes with a number of colorschemes by default. The colorschemes that you
can display will depend on what kind of color support your terminal has.
+Omit color-link default "[fg color],[bg color]" will make the background color match the terminal's, and transparency if set.
+
Modern terminals tend to have a palette of 16 user-configurable colors (these
colors can often be configured in the terminal preferences), and additional
color support comes in three flavors.
True color requires your terminal to support it. This means that the
environment variable `COLORTERM` should have the value `truecolor`, `24bit`,
or `24-bit`. In addition, to enable true color in micro, the environment
-variable `MICRO_TRUECOLOR` must be set to 1.
+variable `MICRO_TRUECOLOR` must be set to 1. Note that you have to create
+and set this variable yourself.
* `solarized-tc`: this is the solarized colorscheme for true color.
* `atom-dark-tc`: this colorscheme is based off of Atom's "dark" colorscheme.
look its best. Use cmc-16 if your terminal doesn't support true color.
* `gruvbox-tc`: The true color version of the gruvbox colorscheme
* `github-tc`: The true color version of the Github colorscheme
+* `material-tc`: Colorscheme based off of Google's Material Design palette
## Creating a Colorscheme
color-link comment ",blue"
```
-You can also put bold, or underline in front of the color:
+You can also put bold, italic, or underline in front of the color:
```
color-link comment "bold red"
* underlined
* error
* todo
+* selection (Color of the text selection)
* statusline (Color of the statusline)
* tabbar (Color of the tabbar that lists open files)
* indent-char (Color of the character which indicates tabs if the option is
* line-number
* gutter-error
* gutter-warning
+* diff-added
+* diff-modified
+* diff-deleted
* cursor-line
* current-line-number
* color-column
* ignore
+* scrollbar
* divider (Color of the divider between vertical splits)
+* message (Color of messages in the bottom line of the screen)
+* error-message (Color of error messages in the bottom line of the screen)
Colorschemes must be placed in the `~/.config/micro/colorschemes` directory to
be used.