What syntax colour schemes do you use?
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Vince, our IT dude, has complained bitterly (well, casually) that the colours we use for PHP don't match what he prefers in his editor. He's using a black background which makes things difficult, but I was hoping for a quick strawpoll of what colours for things like keywords and comments make PHP devs feel most at home. In fact, why not open this up for all languages. Java, Ruby, PERL, Objective C - anything.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Come on guys. When did colour schemes become important to us? Next thing, you'll be advocating throw pillows and cushions round the office. Let's talk about important things now. Cars, bacon and beer.
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Come on guys. When did colour schemes become important to us? Next thing, you'll be advocating throw pillows and cushions round the office. Let's talk about important things now. Cars, bacon and beer.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
Actually the wall paper is what's been giving me a headache. The velvet touch or the paisley?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Vince, our IT dude, has complained bitterly (well, casually) that the colours we use for PHP don't match what he prefers in his editor. He's using a black background which makes things difficult, but I was hoping for a quick strawpoll of what colours for things like keywords and comments make PHP devs feel most at home. In fact, why not open this up for all languages. Java, Ruby, PERL, Objective C - anything.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
My monitor colors are set to high contrast black, with white characters on a black background ('cause I'm freaking blind). The default syntax colorings ALL assume black characters on white background, so they don't work for me. It's a constant low-level pain. At work, I have sometimes asked if colored text we all have to share because there's no programmable default could be set to make sense for my color scheme, and I ALWAYS demand that apps we write make sense when a microsoft-supplied accessible color scheme is selected, 'cause accessible design is goog design. On the other hand, I could hardly care less what colors you use, since I don't have to be you. I don't see why the IT guy is so upset. The reason the colors are configurable is so he can do what he likes and you can do what you like. If the IT guy is complaining about what you like, the problem is probably very different from what colors your syntax are colored.
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Vince, our IT dude, has complained bitterly (well, casually) that the colours we use for PHP don't match what he prefers in his editor. He's using a black background which makes things difficult, but I was hoping for a quick strawpoll of what colours for things like keywords and comments make PHP devs feel most at home. In fact, why not open this up for all languages. Java, Ruby, PERL, Objective C - anything.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
http://studiostyl.es/ Son of obsidian FTW
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Vince, our IT dude, has complained bitterly (well, casually) that the colours we use for PHP don't match what he prefers in his editor. He's using a black background which makes things difficult, but I was hoping for a quick strawpoll of what colours for things like keywords and comments make PHP devs feel most at home. In fact, why not open this up for all languages. Java, Ruby, PERL, Objective C - anything.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I have this problem with white background. I can read lighter text on dark or black background all day long, but if I focus on light background, my eyes got tired quickly and so my vision becomes blurry. VS2008/VS2010 can export and import theme so I saved my favor theme and import it as needed. I know one's theme is ugly to the next person. We just need to play and find our own eyes/health setting . ;) I configure my colors this way for so long, I memorized all colors setting based on the function(results from old day DOS, text-based). I configured Eclipse, Netbeans and SQL the same basic setting. background: black normal text: lightgray comment: gray/italic charater/string: lime number/float: white binary/hex/memory address: Magenta variable/function: aqua/light cyan type/class name: bold teal symbol/delimitors: yellow language keywork: red pre-processor: green error: red warning: yellow selected: yellow on blue Font: equal space font type.
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i've given up fighting the defaults (especially since i have to reinstall VS08 after every Windows update). so... whatever MS feels is appropriate is what i use. but i know guys who set it up so that it looks just like an old 8-bit PC display: white blocky monospaced font on a bright blue background.
You can export your settings and then re-import them after the reinstall.
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http://studiostyl.es/ Son of obsidian FTW
Yes, best place for VS styles. For me, it's Code Anxiety FTW!
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Vince, our IT dude, has complained bitterly (well, casually) that the colours we use for PHP don't match what he prefers in his editor. He's using a black background which makes things difficult, but I was hoping for a quick strawpoll of what colours for things like keywords and comments make PHP devs feel most at home. In fact, why not open this up for all languages. Java, Ruby, PERL, Objective C - anything.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
For PHP, color everything "kludge".
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Vince, our IT dude, has complained bitterly (well, casually) that the colours we use for PHP don't match what he prefers in his editor. He's using a black background which makes things difficult, but I was hoping for a quick strawpoll of what colours for things like keywords and comments make PHP devs feel most at home. In fact, why not open this up for all languages. Java, Ruby, PERL, Objective C - anything.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Vince, our IT dude, has complained bitterly (well, casually) that the colours we use for PHP don't match what he prefers in his editor. He's using a black background which makes things difficult, but I was hoping for a quick strawpoll of what colours for things like keywords and comments make PHP devs feel most at home. In fact, why not open this up for all languages. Java, Ruby, PERL, Objective C - anything.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
A slightly modified version of http://studiostyl.es/schemes/selenitic[^]
I wish I could change my favorite color to be yellow.