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Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

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Post by lobster_johnson »

daylerees wrote: post #65

Hi all, Dayle Rees here, glad you like my themes! If you do, please remember to star the repo! Also if you like some of the themes, but would prefer them slightly different, please let me know using the github issues feature and I will create an alternate version! Also taking requests the same way! Thanks!

I like the colours, but the schemes are incomplete. Most egregiously, there is no colour setting for variables, which affects Ruby, where you want instance variables ("@foo") to be colorized.

The colorization for indent guides is much too high-contrast for me. I don't look at indent guides unless I am "lost" in a particular region of nesting.

Likewise, too much contrast for trailing spaces. Sure, I want to see when I am erroneously inserting trailing whitespace myself, but I often have to work on other people's files, and I don't such a file to light up like a Christmas tree when it's full of trailing spaces. (And usually I don't want to fix them, either. It's bad gitiquette to correct other people's bad tabs/trailing space unless you are intentionally creating a patch to fix those things.)

Screen shots comparing my current theme (modified version of Monokai) with yours: http://i.imgur.com/dkcPh.png, http://i.imgur.com/WYubo.png. (Notice subtle indent/space colorization, and variable colorization.)

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#73

Post by [deleted] »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #71
daylerees wrote: post #65

Hi all, Dayle Rees here, glad you like my themes! If you do, please remember to star the repo! Also if you like some of the themes, but would prefer them slightly different, please let me know using the github issues feature and I will create an alternate version! Also taking requests the same way! Thanks!

I like the colours, but the schemes are incomplete. Most egregiously, there is no colour setting for variables, which affects Ruby, where you want instance variables ("@foo") to be colorized. The colorization for indent guides is much too high-contrast for me. I don't look at indent guides unless I am "lost" in a particular region of nesting. Likewise, too much contrast for trailing spaces. Sure, I want to see when I…

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Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#74

Post by subpixel »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #71
daylerees wrote: post #65

Hi all, Dayle Rees here, glad you like my themes! If you do, please remember to star the repo! Also if you like some of the themes, but would prefer them slightly different, please let me know using the github issues feature and I will create an alternate version! Also taking requests the same way! Thanks!

I like the colours, but the schemes are incomplete. Most egregiously, there is no colour setting for variables, which affects Ruby, where you want instance variables ("@foo") to be colorized. The colorization for indent guides is much too high-contrast for me. I don't look at indent guides unless I am "lost" in a particular region of nesting. Likewise, too much contrast for trailing spaces. Sure, I want to see when I…

+1 for instance variable colorization

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#75

Post by lobster_johnson »

subpixel wrote: post #74
lobster_johnson wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the colours, but the schemes are incomplete. Most egregiously, there is no colour setting for variables, which affects Ruby, where you want instance variables ("@foo") to be colorized. The colorization for indent guides is much too high-contrast for me. I don't look at indent guides unless I am "lost" in a particular region of nesting. Likewise, too much contrast for trailing spaces. Sure, I want to see when I…

+1 for instance variable colorization

This is my theme, if anyone is interested: https://gist.github.com/4140677

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#76

Post by akkartik »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #48
SiVal wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 im…

I found this thread fascinating. It seems the more heavily people comment, the less they care about reading comments all the time: http://akkartik.name/blog/2012-11-24-18-10-36-soc.

It's almost like there's a law of conservation at work. The law of conservation of human attention. Comments can be used either as background hum or as salient landmarks.

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#79

Post by knes »

notmyname wrote: post #31
pooriaazimi wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tomorrow (and base16, its next incarnation) are awesome. But there's one thing I like about Pastie more: the way it highlights literal strings (and heredocs and herestrings)... look at this image: http://steverandytantra.com/gridfs/4fff15cc1c1cc6a0cb00000c-...

You may be interested in "Made of Code" http://madeofcode.com/posts/29-photo-my-new-textmate-theme-8... Sample of Made of code theme in SL2: http://d.not.mn/made_of_code_sample.png (the code is https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/swift/proxy/c... )

I have tried a couple of color scheme and for me Made Of Code is the best, by far!

Re: Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

#80

Post by drothlis »

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…

> context, failed experiments, shortcuts, optimizations, and so on.

I think commit messages are the appropriate place for this stuff; I use `git annotate` etc. to find the information when I need it. I often have a 50-line commit message accompanying a one-line code change -- a ratio that would obviously make the code unreadable if all the comments were in-line with the code itself.

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