On Sep 14, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Caio Chassot wrote:
I was more specifically wondering about each theme author methodology and preferences, how they put the tools available to use.
Thomas Aylott's theme creating process.
0) Define your palette. Decide what colors you're going to use & never deviate from them (unless you didn't think it thru throughly first).
1) Open a big file. It should contain most of the different elements that you're going to want to customize. (comments, html, css, js, ruby, erb, etc...) I usually open up a bunch and switch around between them white designing the theme.
2) Make a blank theme.
3) Select something in your code that you want to customize & get it's scope. I use a custom command "echo $TM_SCOPE" show in new window. So that I can copy & paste the scope.
4) Make a new entry in the scope editor.
5) Repeat.
BEWARE: The theme is only saved when you close the prefs window. If you do something crazy that makes it crash
I usually start out with the basic html stuff.