[TextMate] Why is all the background colours dark ????

[Caio Chassot]

On Oct 08, 2004, at 00:12, Michael Sheets wrote:

>> I'm in for the dark bg too.
>
> What about letting each syntax have at least a couple themes, with 
> semi-standard names. (Light, Dark, etc) Then you could pick a default 
> theme 'style' to use across the syntaxes, in addition of course to 
> complete customization.
>

In private email, Allan said they thought about doing themes.

But then you have three syntax files to maintain, that only differ in 
color values,

The best solution, as someone's suggested before, is to do like jedit: 
provide some common names, preferably in abundance:
eg. string literal 1, 2 ,3 and 4

And them have themes that set colors for these common names.
(setting color by color is a bore, it'd be ideal if people could 
distribute their color settings)

It should still be possible to hardcode color values or to create 
custom color names, for really weird languages.