Parse alacritty colors in one awk pass

Each color lookup spawned a 60-line awk program with a character-by-
character quote-state machine for comment stripping, about 22 spawns
per run counting the dotted-key retries. One pass now tracks the
current [section], normalizes dotted keys to the same path, and emits
key/hex pairs into a single associative array the shell reads once.

The strict value pattern (a lone, optionally quoted and 0x/#-prefixed
six-digit hex, followed by nothing or a comment) makes quote-aware
comment stripping unnecessary. Section form still wins over dotted
form and first valid occurrence still wins, matching the original
search order. Output is byte-identical across fixtures covering both
key forms, comments, prefixes, and fallback paths, plus real themes.

197 lines to 151.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
David Heinemeier Hansson
2026-07-02 22:09:14 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent b14735aacb
commit fef59cece8
+59 -105
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@@ -25,99 +25,73 @@ if [[ ! -f $ALACRITTY_FILE ]]; then
exit 0
fi
normalize_hex() {
local color="$1"
[[ -z $color ]] && return
color="${color#0x}"
color="${color#\#}"
if [[ $color =~ ^[0-9a-fA-F]{6}$ ]]; then
printf "#%s\n" "${color,,}"
fi
}
# Parse the alacritty TOML in a single awk pass, emitting one
# "<dotted-path>\t#<hex>" pair per color-valued key. Dotted keys are
# normalized (`normal.black = ...` under [colors] becomes
# colors.normal.black, same as `black = ...` under [colors.normal]),
# with the section form taking precedence and the first valid
# occurrence of a key winning.
declare -A COLORS
extract_color_in_section() {
local section="$1"
local key="$2"
local color_hex=""
color_hex=$(awk -v section="$section" -v key="$key" '
function trim(value) {
gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "", value)
return value
while IFS=$'\t' read -r key value; do
COLORS[$key]=$value
done < <(awk '
/^[ \t]*\[/ {
line = $0
sub(/^[ \t]+/, "", line)
if (line ~ /^\[[^]]*\][ \t]*$/) {
section = substr(line, 2, index(line, "]") - 2)
} else {
section = ""
}
next
}
function strip_comment(value, i, ch, out, in_single, in_double, prev) {
out = ""
in_single = 0
in_double = 0
prev = ""
for (i = 1; i <= length(value); i++) {
ch = substr(value, i, 1)
if (ch == "\"" && !in_single && prev != "\\") {
in_double = !in_double
} else if (ch == "'\''" && !in_double) {
in_single = !in_single
}
if (ch == "#" && !in_single && !in_double) {
break
}
out = out ch
prev = ch
}
gsub(/[ \t]+$/, "", out)
return out
}
/^[ \t]*\[/ {
in_section = ($0 ~ "^[ \\t]*\\[" section "\\][ \\t]*$")
section != "" {
split_pos = index($0, "=")
if (split_pos == 0) {
next
}
in_section {
line = $0
line = strip_comment(line)
split_pos = index(line, "=")
if (split_pos == 0) {
next
}
current_key = trim(substr(line, 1, split_pos - 1))
current_value = trim(substr(line, split_pos + 1))
if (current_key == key) {
gsub(/["'\''#]/, "", current_value)
sub(/^0[xX]/, "", current_value)
if (current_value ~ /^[0-9A-Fa-f]{6}$/) {
print current_value
exit
}
}
key = substr($0, 1, split_pos - 1)
gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "", key)
if (key == "" || key ~ /^#/) {
next
}
' "$ALACRITTY_FILE")
if [[ -n $color_hex && $color_hex =~ ^[0-9a-fA-F]{6}$ ]]; then
normalize_hex "$color_hex"
fi
value = substr($0, split_pos + 1)
gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "", value)
return 0
}
# Accept a lone hex color, optionally 0x- or #-prefixed and quoted,
# ignoring any trailing comment. The color always yields the first
# run of six hex digits.
if (value !~ /^["'\''](0[xX]|#)?[0-9a-fA-F]{6}(["'\'']([ \t]*#.*)?)?$/ &&
value !~ /^(0[xX])?[0-9a-fA-F]{6}([ \t]*#.*)?$/) {
next
}
match(value, /[0-9a-fA-F]{6}/)
hex = tolower(substr(value, RSTART, RLENGTH))
path = section "." key
if (section == "colors" && index(key, ".") > 0) {
if (!(path in dotted)) dotted[path] = hex
} else {
if (!(path in direct)) direct[path] = hex
}
}
END {
for (path in direct) print path "\t#" direct[path]
for (path in dotted) if (!(path in direct)) print path "\t#" dotted[path]
}
' "$ALACRITTY_FILE")
names=(black red green yellow blue magenta cyan white)
# Extract normal colors (color0-7)
for i in {0..7}; do
name="${names[$i]}"
val=$(extract_color_in_section "colors.normal" "$name")
if [[ -z $val ]]; then
val=$(extract_color_in_section "colors" "normal.$name")
fi
printf -v "color$i" "%s" "$val"
printf -v "color$i" "%s" "${COLORS[colors.normal.$name]}"
done
# Validate we have all normal colors (required)
@@ -128,38 +102,18 @@ for c in color0 color1 color2 color3 color4 color5 color6 color7; do
fi
done
# Extract bright colors (color8-15)
# Extract bright colors (color8-15), falling back to normal
for i in {0..7}; do
normal="color$i"
bright="color$((i + 8))"
name="${names[$i]}"
val=$(extract_color_in_section "colors.bright" "$name")
if [[ -z $val ]]; then
val=$(extract_color_in_section "colors" "bright.$name")
fi
printf -v "$bright" "%s" "${val:-${!normal}}"
val="${COLORS[colors.bright.$name]}"
printf -v "color$((i + 8))" "%s" "${val:-${!normal}}"
done
# Extract primary colors
background=$(extract_color_in_section "colors.primary" "background")
foreground=$(extract_color_in_section "colors.primary" "foreground")
if [[ -z $background ]]; then
background=$(extract_color_in_section "colors" "primary.background")
fi
if [[ -z $foreground ]]; then
foreground=$(extract_color_in_section "colors" "primary.foreground")
fi
# Extract selection colors
selection_background=$(extract_color_in_section "colors.selection" "background")
if [[ -z $selection_background ]]; then
selection_background=$(extract_color_in_section "colors" "selection.background")
fi
# Extract primary and selection colors
background="${COLORS[colors.primary.background]}"
foreground="${COLORS[colors.primary.foreground]}"
selection_background="${COLORS[colors.selection.background]}"
# Apply defaults
background=${background:-$color0}