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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.
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.
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I can't read a white background unless I'm in a very bright room. Off whites are better for me. But personally I prefer light on dark. But it's a personal thing. I rue the day the browser default background colour changed from being light grey to white.
You may want to lower your monitor's backlight level (if LCD) or brightness/contrast (if CRT).
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Light, which I voted for. Been using it for >1yr and so far so good, more soothing to look at. You?
I've also been using solarized light in vim, urxvt, and Awesome WM on Linux. On Windows at work I use solarized light in Putty, Mintty, Eclipse, and Gvim.
I'm surprised nobody talked about Wombat. It's the theme I use everywhere I can. It's on a dark gray background. Here is a screenshot: http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wom...
Found it here (also has lots of other great fonts):