Error with pkg-config when installing on OS X about hydrogen

[rgbkrk]

First thing - make sure to run atom from the command line:

$ atom .

Second, try installing it from the command line

$ apm install hydrogen

[stared]

Thanks. Installing through command line works (and I got no warning or errors).

But in Atom it works (i.e. executes lines, provides autocompletion) but instead of results shows white boxes. (As it might be related to my previous problem, I keep this in this thread.) Do you have any ideas what it is?

[rgbkrk]

Hmm, I see white on white results there. This looks like a theming misalignment.

[stared]

I see - it is a different thing. I tried to change styles and for light themes it works; for all dark themes I have it is unreadable (for Monokai - almost visible).

But in this case - isn't it an issue with box color? (How can it be styled?)

(And for the main topic - any ideas why from-Atom installation did not work for me (permissions? different stuff?).)

[willwhitney]

Per the readme,

Assuming you followed the dependencies steps above, you can now apm install hydrogen (recommended) or search for "hydrogen" in the Install pane of the Atom settings. Note that installing from within Atom will only work if you start Atom from the command line! See Jank.

One of our dependencies needs an external build tool, and Atom only has your $PATH if run from the command line.

This is looks like an issue with my styling logic (it tries to select colors that match your background). What UI theme and syntax theme are you using? I'll fix that up ASAP.

[stared]

@willwhitney I don't know why I missed the last sentence, my bad.

(Maybe because it was not near to command line commands or because I didn't know command line installation for atom, let alone - that it is different.)

I use Monokai, for Python 2.7, no Python-specific packages. On my computer all dark themes (including built-in) look unreadable.
I had some custom styling, but switching it off made no difference.

[willwhitney]

No worries!

What UI theme and syntax theme are you using?

[stared]

Atom Dark / Monokai.

On 09 Jun 2015, at 18:52, Will Whitney [email protected] wrote:

No worries!

What UI theme and syntax theme are you using?

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[willwhitney]

If it's this monokai, it fails to declare the global syntax color variables that Hydrogen depends on.

I guess I'll just make Hydrogen use the same colors no matter what, maybe attempting to pick one of two themes based on the syntax colors if possible. I have to assume that other themes are going to have this problem as well.

[willwhitney]

Okay, I just pushed a patch that fixes up the color selection code a little bit. I think that should take care of it — thanks for reporting the issue!