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Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

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Post by fatbird »

msluyter wrote: post #19

I think these are all quite nice, however... am I the only person out there who likes comments to show up in a nice bright color (my preference, usually a bright terminal green). The faded comment look that most of these share is really hard for me to read.

For me, hard to read is the point. Comments are something I want to be able to focus on and consume, but disappear if I'm not focussed on them.

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#42

Post by thejosh »

fatbird wrote: post #41
msluyter wrote: post #19

I think these are all quite nice, however... am I the only person out there who likes comments to show up in a nice bright color (my preference, usually a bright terminal green). The faded comment look that most of these share is really hard for me to read.

For me, hard to read is the point. Comments are something I want to be able to focus on and consume, but disappear if I'm not focussed on them.

That's a great point. I would love some sort of effect where if I've clicked on the comment block it is a lighter colour, otherwise it goes back to the default colour.

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#43

Post by nnq »

sweet ...but every time I find a new favorite color scheme, it only lasts for a week max ...after this some part of my brain pulls me into changing back to my good ol' Visual Studio-like color scheme ...wonder if this happens to anyone else too

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#44

Post by micampe »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #39
micampe wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can add any Github (or Bitbucket) repository to Package Control.

I can't get it to work. I add the git web url, I restart sublime, go to install and the themes don't show up as options...

I just did it. You don’t get the individual themes, you get a single package with all themes called “Dayle Rees Color Schemes”.

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#45

Post by SiVal »

msluyter wrote: post #19

I think these are all quite nice, however... am I the only person out there who likes comments to show up in a nice bright color (my preference, usually a bright terminal green). The faded comment look that most of these share is really hard for me to read.

I prefer faded comments, because some of my code is quite heavily commented. The code itself is what I always read, and I want it to jump out at me. The comments are background info, observations, sometimes wordy descriptions of why things are the way they are, and so on. If I've been away from the code for a while, I'll read the comments to help reestablish the context, refresh my memory of failed experiments, of shortcuts, optimizations, and so on. Most of the time, I don't need to read these comments, so having them faded into the background works for me in every way except for the briefer, more urgent type of comment that SHOULD jump out.

One thing I would like to have is an editor that responded to tags within comments (so it wouldn't be a part of the programming lang syntax, but just a convention used by the programmer) which would apply different colors to different types of comments. I would then use a faded color for wordy background info or comments needed by anyone proposing to change the code but not needed for reading the code, brighter colors for brief comments on the intent of a chunk of code (making the code easier to skim) and maybe a very bright color for WARNING, or FIXME, or STUB-ONLY, or TODO, etc.

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#46

Post by giu »

By changing the general theme, the background color of the build panel won't change automatically (screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/35N6Z.png).

You can change the build panel's background color (in Ubuntu) by editing the ~/.config/sublime-text/\Packages\Theme - Default\Widget.sublime-settings file and replacing the current line in the file with

   "color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/.tmTheme"

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#47

Post by Achshar »

danberger wrote: post #12

Open Terminal... cd /Users/dan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages git clone https://github.com/daylerees/colour-schemes In Sublime -> Preferences -> Color Scheme

But this would require git, right? i use mercurial and don't have git installed.

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#48

Post by Cthulhu_ »

SiVal wrote: post #45
msluyter wrote: post #19

I think these are all quite nice, however... am I the only person out there who likes comments to show up in a nice bright color (my preference, usually a bright terminal green). The faded comment look that most of these share is really hard for me to read.

I prefer faded comments, because some of my code is quite heavily commented. The code itself is what I always read, and I want it to jump out at me. The comments are background info, observations, sometimes wordy descriptions of why things are the way they are, and so on. If I've been away from the code for a while, I'll read the comments to help reestablish the context, refresh my memory of failed experiments, of sh…

I kinda disagree; if your comments, observations etc don't JUMP OUT AT YOU READ THIS THIS IS IMPORTANT!1one, they're not important, apparently. This also goes for other people's code, really. There is often a difference between code and comments, which causes people to read the code instead of the comments. However, one cause is that comments don't draw the attention because they're often in a dimmed, 'this is not important' color scheme - the other is that there's too much comments that don't add value to the code.

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#49

Post by ddfreyne »

jrajav wrote: post #22
safetyscissors wrote: post #9

Any vim ports?

You can convert any Textmate/ST2 theme to Vim using this tool: http://coloration.sickill.net/ I've used it myself, it works great.

That app does not seem to be working correctly ATM, but you can use the commandline tools for converting: https://github.com/sickill/coloration

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#50

Post by Cthulhu_ »

thejosh wrote: post #42
fatbird wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, hard to read is the point. Comments are something I want to be able to focus on and consume, but disappear if I'm not focussed on them.

That's a great point. I would love some sort of effect where if I've clicked on the comment block it is a lighter colour, otherwise it goes back to the default colour.

You could select it and get a good highlighted color.
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