Altering Colors of Markdown List Markers

[FTWynn]

Apologies for the noob level question, but I feel like I’m missing something important in this process.

I’m trying to change the color of the list marker in markdown lists based on depth so that it’s a little easier to distinguish hierarchies (much like org mode in emacs). I did this in Fargo with some css that was very stupid, but works: https://github.com/FTWynn/FargoStyling

I grasp that it’s a pretty simple copy and paste operation into my personal stylesheet, but I can’t seem to get the selectors correct to actually change the color in the editor.

I would think it would be:

span.variable.unordered.list.gfm { color : #cb4b16; }

… but this doesn’t seem to take precedence, and even the !important flag doesn’t fix it. Given that I’m using the solarized-dark themes, markdown-writer, and markdown-toc packages, what do I need to use so that the rule doesn’t get overwritten? How should I have tracked this down before now?

Apologies again and many thanks.

[leedohm]

See this recent topic:

Equivalent to style.less for syntax

So I was trying to make some very small changes to the syntax theme and was hoping there is an easier option than forking and working out my own. However I did not manage to get any changes trough style.less to the syntax coloring. Was wondering if there is any way to do this?

Also added a FAQ:

I'm trying to change my syntax colors from styles.less, but it isn't working!

The best way to tweak the syntax is to wrap your syntax style rules with atom-text-editor and then prepend every scope with syntax--. If you want your comments to be blue, for example, you would do the following: atom-text-editor { .syntax--comment { color: blue; } }

[FTWynn]

The simple and (still terrible) hacky result… which I can’t seem to actually link to because of new user link posting limits:

https://gist.github.com/FTWynn/2ed631c1540b66a07a32