Eclipse Code Coloring Sucks
On a late-night quest to make my eclipse programming environment “cooler” I have totally destroyed my eyes and ability to read code. Dammit. You’d think this would be easier? Both XCode and TextMate have excellent theme managers. Eclipse/Flex Builder… not so much.
After following the (very short) instructions from this blog (not recommended), I ended up with this:
Ugggggggh. Wtf am I supposed to do with that? I mean if it was all 1980’s Apple II green, then we’d have something. But when you mix in the blue and purple… It’s like the theme ain’t even trying. Note: I don’t mean to blame the blog that I followed, the screenshot looks good on Chu Yeow’s end. I think the import technique definitely failed though.
Here’s what I was going for:
Maybe I just need to switch back to TextMate? I loved it for Rails development.
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Hehe that’s definitely not the expected result. I wasn’t impressed when I found the only way to share my syntax coloring preferences from Eclipse was to export my entire preferences file. Something probably broke along the way with new versions of Eclipse.
Anyway, if it bothers you (like it did me 2 years ago), you should definitely change the colors yourself.
I don’t use Eclipse anymore though (don’t code in Java anymore).
Yeah. I think I’m going to just revert my colors to the standard boring ones and investigate using TextMate or XCode.
If anyone else gets hosed, the easy fix is in Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors and then click “Restore Defaults” and “Apply”.
anybody know where to set the color for periods & semicolons? Its still black and invisible in my desired white on black environment…
Wait, i solved it. (In Flex) numbers, semicolon and period colors are set in the general>text editors page as ‘foreground color.’