add functions for quickly changing term background

light - switch to light theme
dark - switch to dark theme

This way, the theme can quickly be changed so that terminal text can be
read on crappier projectors for presentaitons, classes, etc.

zsh/functions.zsh

@@ -135,3 +135,12 @@ function hl() {
 
     echo $src | highlight -O rtf --syntax $1 --font Inconsoloata --style $style --line-number --font-size 24 | pbcopy
 }
+
+# set the background color to light
+function light() {
+    export BACKGROUND="light" && reload!
+}
+
+function dark() {
+    export BACKGROUND="dark" && reload!
+}

zsh/zshrc.symlink

@@ -56,8 +56,13 @@ source `brew --prefix`/etc/profile.d/z.sh
 
 
 # Base16 Shell
-export THEME="base16-paraiso"
-export BACKGROUND="dark"
+if [ -z "$THEME" ]; then
+    export THEME="base16-atelierlakeside"
+fi
+if [ -z "$BACKGROUND" ]; then
+    export BACKGROUND="dark"
+fi
+
 BASE16_SHELL="$DOTFILES/.config/base16-shell/$THEME.$BACKGROUND.sh"
 # [[ -s $BASE16_SHELL ]] && source $BASE16_SHELL
 source $BASE16_SHELL