Understanding colors in helm-buffers_list

[Ribonous]

I noticed Helm uses different colors for different types of buffers in the helm-buffers_list.

I think I understand what some of these colors mean (e.g. buffer has been modified, but not saved), but is there a way of finding out what the other colors represent? (i.e. how Helm colors the names of the buffers).

Thanks!

Lukas

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Hit C-c ?, and there is an error:
read:

red: A buffer modified by an external process

instead of

red: A buffer saved by an external process

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[Ribonous]

Great. Thanks Thierry.

~Lukas

[Ribonous]

I'm revisiting this question, and while I can learn about the meaning of the different colors of helm-buffers_list in the help with C-c ?, I cannot find the information about the meaning of colors in C-c ? on helm-find-files.

What do the different colors mean in helm-find-files?

Thanks,
Lukas

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Hi Lukas,

Ribonous <ribonu...@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm revisiting this question, and while I can learn about the meaning of
> the different colors of helm-buffers_list in the help with C-c ?, I cannot
> find the information about the meaning of colors in C-c ? on
> helm-find-files.
>
> What do the different colors mean in helm-find-files?

You will notice the difference by hitting M-i to have info on file.

blue => files
background white => directories
orange => symlinks
green => executables files

I didn't add infos on this in C-c ? because user have M-i to learn
itself what is the meaning of colors and also because the remote files
are not colorized (unless you set this, in this case display is slower).