colorcol

kakoune plugin, that displays color previews in gutter.

Install

Having Nim installed just do nimble install https://github.com/SolitudeSF/colorcol.

Then in your kakrc add evaluate-commands %sh{ colorcol }.

Now you can use colorcol-enable to activate the plugin. You can refresh color display with colorcol-refresh or you can use colorcol-auto-refresh to automatically refresh on buffer write.

Recommended setup

evaluate-commands %sh{ colorcol }

hook global WinCreate .* %{
    colorcol-enable
    colorcol-auto-refresh
}