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Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?
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Re: Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?
#92Depends a lot on the general setup. On my Mac, it's often a white(-ish) background, whereas on a shell-heavy Linux desktop I keep with a general dark look and feel.
But lately I surprisingly often turn to yellow on blue (TP-like), without syntax highlighting…
Re: Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?
#93I seem to alternate between firing up gvim (white background) and vim in a terminal (black background). I don't really notice a difference in terms of readability etc.
Re: Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?
#94I wouldn't say white on black, more like grey and some other muted colors on black. I remember making the switch from black on white. I was working a contract job with ungodly hours and my eyes were pretty much always red and irritated. I started to notice certain colors on the screen were particularly irritating so I started to fiddle with the color scheme and eventually ended up with the light on black scheme. It w…
You should try f.lux -- http://stereopsis.com/flux/ . It really makes night time computing easier on the eyes.
f.lux is also great for short and dark winter days. I keep my day temperature around 4,400K and my night temperature around 3,400K in the winter (and substantially warmer during the summer).
Re: Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?
#95Light text on a dark background.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1891 vividchalk
Re: Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?
#96Light on dark is nice except when I have other screens open - which is most of the time. If my text editor has a dark background, I find the lighter backgrounds in the periphery of my vision to be more distracting. Hence, I end up using black on white.
Re: Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?
#97I use light, but dark bg has a really big advantadge that you can see many different foreground colors. Its really hard to pick good orthogonal colors on a light bg.
Re: Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?
#98light on dark theme: tango, +f.lux, +stylish on chrome for replacing popular websites w/ dark themes.
Re: Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?
#99I use Vibrant Ink. I like the clarity of it and port it to any enviro I use. http://alternateidea.com/blog/articles/2006/1/3/textmate-vib... Font: inconsolata of course. http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
Is there a port for IntelliJ IDEA?
Re: Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?
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