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Suggestion: Translate vscode color themes to terminal color schemes

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#4,997 opened on Mar 18, 2020

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Description

For someone that knew the attributes in both vscode color themes and in terminal color scheme, it seems that it would be easy to write, say, a Python script to do this translation. Because I know neither, I can only describe the need.

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Research direction
Investigate the format of VS Code color themes (JSON) and Windows Terminal color schemes (JSON), then implement a script to convert between them.
Tech stack
python
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developer experience
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Feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Needs investigation
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70