daaanny90/interlinked.nvim

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2026-10-06

UPDATED

2026-10-06

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interlinked.nvim

A melancholic Blade Runner 2049 colorscheme for Neovim — with ambient, film-grade effects.

Not the neon-purple cyberpunk cliché. This is Deakins' photography: the cold blue-grey fog of LA, the irradiated amber of Las Vegas as the single warm accent, Joi's desaturated hologram cyan, dusty rose, sea-wall green. Every color is muted; nothing glows unless it has to.

Features

• Full palette for core UI, Treesitter, LSP semantic tokens and diagnostics (including virtual lines), plus integrations for telescope, neo-tree, nvim-cmp, gitsigns, which-key, noice/notify, dashboard, lazy, mason, flash, todo-comments, indent-blankline, illuminate, lspsaga, ufo, dap-ui, neotest, diffview, grug-far, codecompanion, treesitter-context, render-markdown, snipe, vim-matchup, package-info, toggleterm.
• Neon flicker — the UI ages like the sets of the film: elements sputter, dip and surge at random intervals. Three levels, off by command.
• :Interlinked — the baseline test as a live session report.
• Marquee — an infinite scrolling band for long statusline text.
• Lualine theme (auto-discovered), terminal colors, tmux theme and iTerm2 preset in extras/.

The baseline test is a status report

:Interlinked types out the film's interrogation — but the answers are your session, live: git branch and dirty state, workspace diagnostics, attached LSP clients, last commit, pending updates. The verdict depends on what it finds: a clean session earns "Constant K. You can pick up your bonus." — errors get "You're not even close to baseline."

:Interlinked poem plays the original scene instead, slow and dramatic.

Ambient fx

Every 6–40 seconds (level-dependent) one event fires: the whole frame drowns in Vegas amber and the fog rolls back in, a scanner sweeps down the gutter, the statusline browns out, comments fade like unstable memories, keywords blush rose for a blink, or the grid blacks out and double-taps back on.

:InterlinkedFx off | subtle | full | extreme | toggle
:InterlinkedFx now [vegas|wipe|joi|scan|blackout|status|nr|surge|gutter|comment]

Deliberately not strobe-like: single bursts built from long holds (≤3 cycles spread over ≥1.1s, under the 3-flashes-per-second photosensitivity guideline), small luminance deltas, long silences between events. Events that would hit invisible UI (no cursorline, no splits) are skipped.

Install

With lazy.nvim:

{
  "daaanny90/interlinked.nvim",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
}

Then:

:colorscheme interlinked

Requires Neovim 0.10+ (vim.system, vim.uv, vim.diagnostic.count).

Configuration

Defaults shown — call setup() only to override:

require("interlinked").setup({
  transparent = false,
  italic_comments = true,
  bold_keywords = false,
  terminal_colors = true,
  flicker = "extreme", -- "extreme" | "full" | "subtle" | false
})

The runtime level chosen with :InterlinkedFx wins over the config default for the rest of the session.

Marquee (scrolling statusline text)

require("interlinked.marquee").scroll(text, width) returns text unchanged while it fits, and a scrolling window over it when it doesn't. A shared ticker (160ms) forces lualine refreshes only while something actually scrolls, stops itself 3s after the last long text disappears, and pauses on FocusLost (inside tmux set set -g focus-events on).

Lualine example — a branch component that scrolls long ticket names:

local function branch_marquee()
  local head = vim.b.gitsigns_head
  if not head or head == "" then
    return ""
  end
  local ok, mq = pcall(require, "interlinked.marquee")
  return ok and mq.scroll(head, 24) or head
end

-- in your lualine sections:
lualine_b = { { branch_marquee, icon = { "" } } }

Extras

• extras/interlinked.tmux — matching tmux status bar / borders / copy-mode (source-file it from your tmux config).
• extras/interlinked.itermcolors — iTerm2 preset (Settings → Profiles → Colors → Color Presets → Import). Amber block cursor recommended.

Palette

License

MIT. Fan work — not affiliated with the Blade Runner franchise.