What's Your Preferred Syntax Color Scheme? 32
I seem to change my color scheme in TextMate every few weeks. I used to be a Vibrant Ink man, then I went with Dawn. I’ve also tried Blackboard and Cobalt, but didn’t stick with those for too long. I’m actually thinking of re-creating my old Visual Studio 2005 color settings (which are actually not too different from my modified Dawn, I guess).
Here’s a snapshot of my Vibrant Ink:
and here is my slightly-modified Dawn:
Sometimes having a white background just gets too glarey, so I switch to a dark background and find it more relaxing. But then I switch back, perhaps because a white background reminds me of a sheet of paper, and because Visual Studio (and DevStudio back in the day) always used a white background so I’m just used to it.
What scheme do you use, and in what editor? (TextMate, emacs, vim, Notepad, NetBeans, e, ....)
I use All Hallow's Eve with Intype (http://intype.info/home/index.php).
I use a modified version of the theme used/created by ryan bates http://railscasts.com/about I've tweaked the colours slightly so it's a better all-rounder for other languages.
I use TextMate and the Vibrant Ink theme, just like nature intended! ;-)
I'm a big fan of Textmate w/ the Twilight theme. I've made a couple of tweaks, though, such as italicizing parameters on method definitions.
I use TextMate w/ the Sunburst theme, most of the time
I try to try something new every once in a while, but I keep going back to Sunburst. It just looks right to me.
Midnight
I'm a Vibrant Ink fan as well. using "e" on windows. :)
vibrant ink
NetBeans with default one ;)
I've been using the RailsCasts theme lately, and like it pretty well.
I use the one I made :-p http://www.danielfischer.com/2007/11/16/new-textmate-theme-for-ruby-haml-rails-and-more/
(It looks darker in the screenshot. The blue is especially a lot lighter)
zenburn for emacs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenburn
Too bad i don't have a mac & textmate...
for now, using Intype (blackboard theme)
I asked this same question on railsforum.com a while ago. This is how I ended up with the Railscasts theme. You can see the topic here. http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=4378
Seems like I'll have to try Sunburst and also check out the default NetBeans scheme.
@Ryan: Thanks - I must have missed that. I'll definitely check out the Railscasts theme too.
Try Choco color theme for TextMate: http://www.ludw.se/eng/blog/2007/08/28/choco-a-new-textmate-skin
I loved Vibrant Ink until I saw Ryan Bates' Railscasts theme. Both are definitely nice themes, but I prefer the Railscasts one because it's more mellow.
Vim with "Vivid Chalk". Its really just Vibrant Ink. Just setup for vim.
I use the Railscast theme with E Text Editor.
I used to be a Sunburst guy, and I still sometimes use it, but the Railscast theme on the e Text Editor is what get's me through those long sessions.
'Pastels on Dark' in Intype Rob Conery's modified Vibrant Ink in Visual Studio 2008
I use Pastels on Dark or All Hallows Eve on Intype.
I used a customized light theme, but now I've switched to Pastels on Dark
Various: Emacs + Colour Themes + Do Re Me. Very easy
TextMate + Railscasts theme VIm + biogoo [ http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=432 ]
If you are looking for Visual Studio colour schemes we have a bundle you can download for free here:
http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Customize-the-Colours-of-the-Ruby
These include many additional Ruby and Rails colours for global vars, instance vars, class vars, method calls etc. etc. if you are using Ruby in Steel. They also define standard colours for other languages such as C# if you aren't using RiS.
best wishes Huw
I use oceandeep in vim, gvim and macvim: http://www.tomsdiner.org/vim/oceandeep/index.html
I have the same OCD I change the damn theme every few weeks, albeit lately I've been sticking to my own made theme. I derived it from Idle Fingers and changed it to mimik the colors that Twitterriffic uses. I've combo'd that up with Adium so that I have all three apps looking sort of the same. I like it.
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I use Desert on vim. it is easy on my eyes. I think it is bundled with gvim by default now.