Programming colours
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We've been through color suggestions before.
It's a matter of personal taste."The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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It's been asked by others before, but I'm going to ask again. Which colours do you use for your editor/IDE? I normally use a white background with blue as the keyword colour and green for strings, and a shade of red for integers/hex values. But I've got a new editor (Notepad++) and I've been playing around with the various default themes it comes with and I quite like some of the "darker" themes. E.G. black or dark grey background and one theme even has a pale khaki green which surprisingly looks quite good. And then I started to think, perhaps certain colours are more better for programming than others. I know that some research was done a while ago which concluded that people doing maths are generally "better" or able to remember sequences of numbers better if they are written down/displayed on screen using different colours. Any thoughts on which colours to use? I'm thinking darker colours for at least the background are less strenuous on your eyes. Edit: Oh and also, which fonts do you use? I normally use things like Courier (Sometimes I can only use Courier, particularly when working on Linux with a terminal) but sometimes fonts that are "smooth" are much more pleasing on the eye.
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This[^] one, with a few modifications to visually identify the difference between the types as much as possible. Very easy on the eyes :) --edit I think the 'best' feature is 'Text Editor\All languages\Line numbers', making it easier to communicate on the code;
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Maximilien wrote:
For the font, I started using the free Adobe Source Code Pro[^] font a couple of weeks ago, and it been great so far.
That doesn't look too bad. I've been using Envy Code R[^] and I like it a lot. I especially like the 'VS' version of the font that swaps bold and italic, so that you can mark things in visual studio as bold but it will show up in italics. Really nice for comments and such.
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It's been asked by others before, but I'm going to ask again. Which colours do you use for your editor/IDE? I normally use a white background with blue as the keyword colour and green for strings, and a shade of red for integers/hex values. But I've got a new editor (Notepad++) and I've been playing around with the various default themes it comes with and I quite like some of the "darker" themes. E.G. black or dark grey background and one theme even has a pale khaki green which surprisingly looks quite good. And then I started to think, perhaps certain colours are more better for programming than others. I know that some research was done a while ago which concluded that people doing maths are generally "better" or able to remember sequences of numbers better if they are written down/displayed on screen using different colours. Any thoughts on which colours to use? I'm thinking darker colours for at least the background are less strenuous on your eyes. Edit: Oh and also, which fonts do you use? I normally use things like Courier (Sometimes I can only use Courier, particularly when working on Linux with a terminal) but sometimes fonts that are "smooth" are much more pleasing on the eye.
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The main change I make (and encourage) in the color scheme is how string types are displayed. I use dark text and a yellow background. e.g: if( strcmp(thisStuff,"Bug Juice") ) rdir("*.*") It's very useful to keep track of unclosed (or incorrectly closed) string types. In some languages, where both single and double quotes delimit string, I may make one black text, the other dark blue or very dark red. In a language like .php, where you're often formatting strings within strings, it makes misplaces single/double quotes really stand out at a glance.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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In VS2008, C++ coding. I use a slight off-white background and the default text coloring (including VisualAssist coloring). For the font, I started using the free Adobe Source Code Pro[^] font a couple of weeks ago, and it been great so far.
Nihil obstat
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It's been asked by others before, but I'm going to ask again. Which colours do you use for your editor/IDE? I normally use a white background with blue as the keyword colour and green for strings, and a shade of red for integers/hex values. But I've got a new editor (Notepad++) and I've been playing around with the various default themes it comes with and I quite like some of the "darker" themes. E.G. black or dark grey background and one theme even has a pale khaki green which surprisingly looks quite good. And then I started to think, perhaps certain colours are more better for programming than others. I know that some research was done a while ago which concluded that people doing maths are generally "better" or able to remember sequences of numbers better if they are written down/displayed on screen using different colours. Any thoughts on which colours to use? I'm thinking darker colours for at least the background are less strenuous on your eyes. Edit: Oh and also, which fonts do you use? I normally use things like Courier (Sometimes I can only use Courier, particularly when working on Linux with a terminal) but sometimes fonts that are "smooth" are much more pleasing on the eye.
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Whatever the IDE default is. With the possible exception of the Borland TurboPascal editor 15 years I don't think I ever fiddled with coloring settings; and TP is just too far in the past for me to remember if I tinkered with it or not.
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It's been asked by others before, but I'm going to ask again. Which colours do you use for your editor/IDE? I normally use a white background with blue as the keyword colour and green for strings, and a shade of red for integers/hex values. But I've got a new editor (Notepad++) and I've been playing around with the various default themes it comes with and I quite like some of the "darker" themes. E.G. black or dark grey background and one theme even has a pale khaki green which surprisingly looks quite good. And then I started to think, perhaps certain colours are more better for programming than others. I know that some research was done a while ago which concluded that people doing maths are generally "better" or able to remember sequences of numbers better if they are written down/displayed on screen using different colours. Any thoughts on which colours to use? I'm thinking darker colours for at least the background are less strenuous on your eyes. Edit: Oh and also, which fonts do you use? I normally use things like Courier (Sometimes I can only use Courier, particularly when working on Linux with a terminal) but sometimes fonts that are "smooth" are much more pleasing on the eye.
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I pretty much use the defaults for everything, except the background. There I prefer an off white (RGB 240, 240, 255). As for the font, my favorite is ProggyCleanTTSZ at 11 point size.
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Do you have a download link to the font? It looks good but all Adobe does is link you to sites with things like "Register now" links on it.
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There's a link to sourceforge somewhere down there... http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcecodepro.adobe/[^]
Nihil obstat
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We've been through color suggestions before.
It's a matter of personal taste."The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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We've been through color suggestions before.
It's a matter of personal taste."The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
I think my transitions lenses darkened when this post came up....
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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We've been through color suggestions before.
It's a matter of personal taste."The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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In VS2008, C++ coding. I use a slight off-white background and the default text coloring (including VisualAssist coloring). For the font, I started using the free Adobe Source Code Pro[^] font a couple of weeks ago, and it been great so far.
Nihil obstat
I tried it when it was released, but I didn't particularly like it. I found Consolas to be better. It's a personal preference thing. Consolas was easier on my eyes.
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It's been asked by others before, but I'm going to ask again. Which colours do you use for your editor/IDE? I normally use a white background with blue as the keyword colour and green for strings, and a shade of red for integers/hex values. But I've got a new editor (Notepad++) and I've been playing around with the various default themes it comes with and I quite like some of the "darker" themes. E.G. black or dark grey background and one theme even has a pale khaki green which surprisingly looks quite good. And then I started to think, perhaps certain colours are more better for programming than others. I know that some research was done a while ago which concluded that people doing maths are generally "better" or able to remember sequences of numbers better if they are written down/displayed on screen using different colours. Any thoughts on which colours to use? I'm thinking darker colours for at least the background are less strenuous on your eyes. Edit: Oh and also, which fonts do you use? I normally use things like Courier (Sometimes I can only use Courier, particularly when working on Linux with a terminal) but sometimes fonts that are "smooth" are much more pleasing on the eye.
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I tend to use black on white but that isnmainly because I haven't found a good other color combination that works. Every dark setting I try has some illegible combination (like text highlighted in find that is also a keyword might be invisible) and I can't be elephanted to go through the palava of changing it. Given the. Choice, though, it's black or very near black background, with a grey or yellow text. The most legible text is yellow on blue, but it's a bit much over time
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It's been asked by others before, but I'm going to ask again. Which colours do you use for your editor/IDE? I normally use a white background with blue as the keyword colour and green for strings, and a shade of red for integers/hex values. But I've got a new editor (Notepad++) and I've been playing around with the various default themes it comes with and I quite like some of the "darker" themes. E.G. black or dark grey background and one theme even has a pale khaki green which surprisingly looks quite good. And then I started to think, perhaps certain colours are more better for programming than others. I know that some research was done a while ago which concluded that people doing maths are generally "better" or able to remember sequences of numbers better if they are written down/displayed on screen using different colours. Any thoughts on which colours to use? I'm thinking darker colours for at least the background are less strenuous on your eyes. Edit: Oh and also, which fonts do you use? I normally use things like Courier (Sometimes I can only use Courier, particularly when working on Linux with a terminal) but sometimes fonts that are "smooth" are much more pleasing on the eye.
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Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
Which colours do you use for your editor/IDE?
Whatever comes as default.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
Oh and also, which fonts do you use?
Ditto.
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I tend to use black on white but that isnmainly because I haven't found a good other color combination that works. Every dark setting I try has some illegible combination (like text highlighted in find that is also a keyword might be invisible) and I can't be elephanted to go through the palava of changing it. Given the. Choice, though, it's black or very near black background, with a grey or yellow text. The most legible text is yellow on blue, but it's a bit much over time
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
_Maxxx_ wrote:
The most legible text is yellow on blue
Is that for monitors? I remember something different for printed on paper.
BDF I often make very large prints from unexposed film, and every one of them turns out to be a picture of myself as I once dreamed I would be. -- BillWoodruff
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Your question gave me an idea. I have some coworkers that like to keep code comments to a minimum, and I like to keep them to a maximum. Maybe I should recommend that they use a white background and white text for code comments. :-\
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We've been through color suggestions before.
It's a matter of personal taste."The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
ow that hurt!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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It's been asked by others before, but I'm going to ask again. Which colours do you use for your editor/IDE? I normally use a white background with blue as the keyword colour and green for strings, and a shade of red for integers/hex values. But I've got a new editor (Notepad++) and I've been playing around with the various default themes it comes with and I quite like some of the "darker" themes. E.G. black or dark grey background and one theme even has a pale khaki green which surprisingly looks quite good. And then I started to think, perhaps certain colours are more better for programming than others. I know that some research was done a while ago which concluded that people doing maths are generally "better" or able to remember sequences of numbers better if they are written down/displayed on screen using different colours. Any thoughts on which colours to use? I'm thinking darker colours for at least the background are less strenuous on your eyes. Edit: Oh and also, which fonts do you use? I normally use things like Courier (Sometimes I can only use Courier, particularly when working on Linux with a terminal) but sometimes fonts that are "smooth" are much more pleasing on the eye.
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I'm so used to using the defaults (and those defaults always changing) that I have no idea :D I always made it a point to be able to do anything without a ton of tools. I also don't get used to custom settings because I find that it's distracting if I end up using something without those settings. I always appreciate syntax highlighting, but I honestly couldn't tell you the color or font that even my current IDE uses. If it colors it , then I'm good with it. p.s. You can change the fonts? Wow...
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It's been asked by others before, but I'm going to ask again. Which colours do you use for your editor/IDE? I normally use a white background with blue as the keyword colour and green for strings, and a shade of red for integers/hex values. But I've got a new editor (Notepad++) and I've been playing around with the various default themes it comes with and I quite like some of the "darker" themes. E.G. black or dark grey background and one theme even has a pale khaki green which surprisingly looks quite good. And then I started to think, perhaps certain colours are more better for programming than others. I know that some research was done a while ago which concluded that people doing maths are generally "better" or able to remember sequences of numbers better if they are written down/displayed on screen using different colours. Any thoughts on which colours to use? I'm thinking darker colours for at least the background are less strenuous on your eyes. Edit: Oh and also, which fonts do you use? I normally use things like Courier (Sometimes I can only use Courier, particularly when working on Linux with a terminal) but sometimes fonts that are "smooth" are much more pleasing on the eye.
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For coding I like a white background and the typical color scheme (blue keywords, etc). I have my own plain text editor I wrote ages ago and while I generally use black on white, I sometimes get in a "dark" mood. One button click and it's green text on a black background, with selections dark blue on light goldenrod. I rarely use the dark theme for more than a day, though. Changing the backcolor to Whitesmoke instead of white can also provide some eye relief. As to fonts, I prefer Lucida Console 12pt.
XAlan Burkhart
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
The most legible text is yellow on blue
Is that for monitors? I remember something different for printed on paper.
BDF I often make very large prints from unexposed film, and every one of them turns out to be a picture of myself as I once dreamed I would be. -- BillWoodruff
Yes, for monitors. I remember sme study back in the day testing which colors gave best results over long periods and yellow on blue won out. (this was back when 256 colors was a luxury, so different shades may be better in these days of 64k+ shades
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