How do I change the color scheme from the command line

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Success!

Turns out sed didn’t work properly either, it picked up the first change, then it stopped working. Apparently sed also does some weird stuff with creating a new file and copying it over the original file, breaking the inode watch. Relatively simple to work around though, I just needed to work on a copy of the config, then writing it over the original file. I now have a working darkman light/dark mode script for Inkdrop! :tada:

#!/bin/bash

[[ $0 == *dark-mode.d* ]] && MODE="dark" || MODE="light"

DARK_UI="vibrant-dark-ui"
DARK_SYNTAX="energy-syntax"
LIGHT_UI="default-light-ui"
LIGHT_SYNTAX="twilight-light-syntax"

CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/.config/inkdrop/config.cson"

if [[ ! -f "$CONFIG_PATH" ]]; then
    echo "Inkdrop config file not found, skipping ($CONFIG_PATH)"
    exit 0
fi

# Any config changes are made in a temporary copy of the config file, since
# modifying it inline (sed -i) would break the inode watch Inkdrop has on the
# file.

BUF="$(mktemp)"
trap "rm $BUF" EXIT

cat "$CONFIG_PATH" > "$BUF"

if [[ "$MODE" = "light" ]]; then
    CHOSEN_UI=$LIGHT_UI
    CHOSEN_SYNTAX=$LIGHT_SYNTAX
else
    CHOSEN_UI=$DARK_UI
    CHOSEN_SYNTAX=$DARK_SYNTAX
fi

sed -i -r "s/\"[^\"]+-ui\"/\"$CHOSEN_UI\"/" "$BUF"
sed -i -r "s/\"[^\"]+-syntax\"/\"$CHOSEN_SYNTAX\"/" "$BUF"

cat "$BUF" > "$CONFIG_PATH"

Video demo: Demo of Inkdrop dark/light mode toggle with Darkman

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