Looped Editor Themes

Looped Automation's editor themes for VS Code, Zed, Warp, and Oh My Posh are generated from a structured TOML template system. This repository contains the source templates, the build tooling, and the prebuilt themes.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.13 or newer (the build script relies on the standard tomllib module)
• uv for managing the virtual environment and running commands

Getting Started

Clone the repository and install the dependencies into an isolated environment managed by uv:

git clone https://github.com/loopedautomation/editor-themes.git
cd editor-themes
uv sync

uv sync creates a dedicated virtual environment in .venv/ and installs the dependencies declared in pyproject.toml.

Building Themes

The build script compiles the TOML templates in src/themes/ into VS Code color themes under themes/.

Run a one-off build:

uv run build.py        # Build VS Code themes
uv run build_zed.py    # Build Zed themes

Run the file watcher during active development (rebuilds all themes whenever template files change):

uv run watch.py

Keep the watcher running while you edit files in src/templates/ or src/themes/. Generated JSON files appear in code/ or zed/themes/ and are ready for testing in your editor.

Testing in VS Code

1. Open the repository folder in VS Code.
2. Start the extension host (F5 or Run and Debug > Start Debugging).
3. In the Extension Development Host window, switch to the Looped Dark or Looped Light theme via the Command Palette.

The debugger automatically reloads whenever the generated theme JSON files change, so you can iterate quickly while the watcher is running.

Project Structure

• src/templates/ reusable color definitions and shared utilities
• src/themes/ top-level theme descriptors that import templates and overrides
• code/ generated VS Code themes consumed by the extension
• zed/themes/ generated Zed themes
• warp/ Warp terminal themes
• oh-my-posh/ Oh My Posh prompt themes
• build.py VS Code template compiler invoked by the watcher or directly
• build_zed.py Zed template compiler
• watch.py filesystem watcher that rebuilds all themes on change
• package.json VS Code extension manifest referencing generated themes
• zed/extension.toml Zed extension configuration

Zed Themes

Looped themes are available for the Zed editor.

Building Zed Themes

uv run build_zed.py

The generated themes will be in zed/themes/.

Installing in Zed

For manual installation during development:

# macOS/Linux
mkdir -p ~/.config/zed/extensions
ln -s "$(pwd)/zed" ~/.config/zed/extensions/looped

# Windows (PowerShell, run as Administrator)
New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path "$env:APPDATA\Zed\extensions\looped" -Target "$(Get-Location)\zed"

Then restart Zed and select Looped Dark or Looped Light from the theme selector.

See zed/README.md for detailed installation and usage instructions.

Warp Themes

• The terminal presets sit under warp/looped-dark.yaml and warp/looped-light.yaml.
• Run ./warp/install.sh to copy every YAML file in the folder into ~/.warp/themes/.
• After installation, open Warp → Settings → Themes and pick Looped Dark or Looped Light.

Oh My Posh Theme

• The prompt theme is in oh-my-posh/looped-dark.omp.json.
• Run ./oh-my-posh/install.sh to copy it into Homebrew's themes folder and wire it into .zshrc (backs up your existing config first).
• If you prefer manual setup, add eval "$(oh-my-posh init zsh --config $(brew --prefix oh-my-posh)/themes/looped-dark.omp.json)" to your shell init file.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.