Actually there is hover, it's hard hard to see it due to the very dark background. Try Alpenglow that is another brighttext theme and you'll see it. We may want to hardcode some colors for the default themes, but this is, imo, low priority.
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Actually there is hover, it's just hard to see it due to the very dark background. Try Alpenglow that is another brighttext theme and you'll see it. We may want to hardcode some colors for the default themes, but this is, imo, low priority.