uwu-colors

a simple language server that i made mainly for helix because of helix-editor/helix#12308

features

uwu-colors sends textDocument/documentColor request on hex color strings like "#ABC", "#abcd", '#AaBbCc', '#AABBCCDD'

it also provides various completions

completions

named color completions are enabled by default - uppercase hex colors from https://www.colorhexa.com/color-names

variable completions can be enabled using a flag

options and flags

--named-completions-mode:

• upper completes with uppercase hex strings
• lower - with lowercase strings
• full - both with lowercase strings and uppercase strings using uppercase names
• none disables completions

--color-collection:

• colorhexa - named colors from ColorHexa
• css - named CSS colors

--variable-completions - enables variable completions like on the second screenshot

installation

you can use it as a flake

1. add it to your system's inputs
2. overlay it

• as inputs.uwu-colors.overlays.default
• or using packages overlay as inputs.uwu-colors.packages.${pkgs.system}.default

3. add it to helix language server configuration with command "${pkgs.uwu-colors}/bin/uwu_colors"
4. add it to your languages of needs

from crates.io

preferred way on a system w/o nix - cargo install uwu_colors

binary from releases

grab an x86_64 binary from github releases

packaging status