Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black? • Hacker News Board

I'm confused: If you give users an option to choose black on white or white on black, why would the default option be relevant? In this particular context, I would imagine users are sufficiently competent to be able to judge the platform after customizing the colors ...

Re: Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?

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Post by 5l » Tue, Dec 20, 2011, 1:21 PM UTC

nassosdim wrote: post #15

I hope that was just a matter of preference for me but having enough eye floaters, I find myself suffering less while working with darker backgrounds.

Do you wear contacts? I've had the same problem with dozens of floaters swooshing around and got to the point where I had custom dark-background stylesheets for everywhere, but found that I could mostly tolerate white backgrounds again with glasses.

Needless to say I still use a dark background in my editor.

Re: Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?

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Post by slyfox » Tue, Dec 20, 2011, 1:22 PM UTC

I go for vim.desert http://hans.fugal.net/vim/colors/desert.html (whitish gray on dark gray) for my editor. Terminal is gray-on-black

Re: Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?

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Post by city41 » Tue, Dec 20, 2011, 1:28 PM UTC

paulrouget wrote: post #44

Thank you for answering the survey! Results: 63% dark theme, 37% light theme: http://paulrouget.com/e/colorssurvey/

The survey was posted at ~4:30 am MST and closed before I woke up. Your results are very European and Asian biased :)