At 7:22 PM -0300 4/5/05, Ben Jackson wrote:
Don't know why I hadn't considered this before... my partner looked at my screen today while I was coding some JS and said "Are you crazy? You're going to ruin your eyes with that!" I did some cursory research (read: Google) and found conflicting opinions on the subject... but most seem to agree that black ground/light text is VERY bad for eyestrain.
This I believe is a matter of personal religion. I am a light background/dark text person and find it inconceivable to go back to programming light on dark. But then again, I survived perfectly well on my Apple II and before that on a VT100 with light on dark.
On the other other hand, a lot of bundles have pretty cool looking light on dark combos that I would have never done myself. Real Soon Now, we'll be able to set colors across bundles, but for now you'll have to tweak it by hand.
Taking this under consideration, I'd like to change the defaults for the JS bundle, but the prefs only allow for changing the defaults.
I would go into the JS bundle, into the Syntaxes folder, and duplicate the .plist there. Rename it to something like JS-Sane.plist and now change the colors in the code. (Also change the 'name' to something new.) Here you will probably want to use Colorpicker to help choose the color.
Hope that gets you on your way... - Eric