[TxMt] Light Text/Black Background?!?

[Mats Persson]

On 5 Apr 2005, at 23:22, 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.

Hmm, interesting. I personally find it easier on and less tiring for my 
eyes with a dark-ish background, but perhaps that is harmful anyway ? 
However, something that we might not consider enough is the quality of 
the screen we are working on. I recently switched from a 4 year old 19" 
PC screen to an iMac G5 and the quality difference between them was 
truly *frightening* !! So, I've probably already screwed up my eyesight 
during those 4 years.

> Taking this under consideration, I'd like to change the defaults for 
> the JS bundle, but the prefs only allow for changing the defaults. How 
> can I do this, ... ?

Before I tell you how to do it, please consider that sometime soon (?) 
Allan will release 1.1b6 which will give you the end user much better 
control of your syntax highlighting through a style sheet like 
scenario. (much discussed in the archive)

IF you can't wait for b6 then you have two options:

1. Have a look at the JavaScript (PHP) version - part of the 
PHP.tmbundle up on the SVN repos. It's more muted in contrast and 
colours and is in my humble opinion better than the default JS version. 
(A slightly reworked version of the JS (PHP) version will most likely 
replace the default JS version after b6 anyway)

2.	Open up the JavaScript.tmbundle/Syntaxes/JavaScript.plist either in 
~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/ or else inside the 
TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/

and then change the following to the colours you'd like/prefer:
	foregroundColor = "#dddddd";
	backgroundColor = "#111111";


Hope that will help you.

Kind regards,

Mats

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