On 11 Sep 2005, at 16:57, thomas Aylott wrote:
If people seriously want a certain theme, I WILL make it (eventually).
The 'pablo' theme from vim would be nice. Or the colours I use in XEmacs (basically the default 'dark background' colours, with a deep blue background).
Who uses what theme in textMate?
Until I started reading this thread, 'Mac Classic'. I'm currently experimenting with 'Pastels on Dark', though I think it needs some tweaking before I'll like it.
What themes have you used from previous systems or applications?
See above; pablo in vim and a tweaked one on XEmacs.
Do you like black backgrounds? Do you like colored backgrounds?
Dark coloured backgrounds, yeah. Either black or a deep blue works well for me.
Do you hate excessive use of background colors? ...for the page? ...for individual elements?
I find the use of different background colours for individual elements to be irritating, sometimes. I find blocks of different colour jarring when I'm trying to read.
Do you like high contrast? Do you prefer lower contrast?
High contrast good, particularly if the sun's shining anywhere nearby. OK, so that only happens, like, two days a year up here in Scotland. :-)
Do you like having a bunch of different colors or would you prefer one with shades of only a few colors?
Different colours. Enough that it's easy to see at a glance what a particular atom is, where it starts and where it stops. Syntax highlighting is supposed to be an aid to reading/writing the code, not just pretty colours. :)
What languages do you want to have colored?
XHTML/XML, Ruby, Python, C++.
Do you want different languages to have different colors?
No. The same type of atom should be the same colour in every language. If a string is green in Ruby, it should be green in every language in the world ever.