How to change color of Editor in Eclipse

Question

I know the preferences are under Preferences>General>Appearance, I played with the color themes and colors of TextEditor, I ended up with some ugly color scheme on top of the default white background (See attached). I tried to reset back to defaults, but nothing seems to get me back to the original default look. Attached is the ugly colors I am stuck with.

Gamaliel

This is EditBox (managing background colors) and is not covered by Eclipse FAQ – Sardanapalus

Answer 1

I think you installed Editbox plugin. Un-install this plug-in and manage colours with eclipse themes. Or try setting/preferences provided by Editbox plug-in itself. Refer this.

I think Editbox settings overrides the preferences in Preferences>General>Appearance.

You also can quickly enable/disable with such icon on Eclipse main toolbar.

Select more themes from EditBox, read at https://github.com/Nodeclipse/EditBox

or

Resilience

This answered my question. I did not remove the plugin, it was a matter of toggling the EditBox On/Off to get or not get the highlight on code blocks. I wasn't aware What Editbox did. – Gamaliel

Answer 2

You can get pre-defined color schemes in http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/

Download one you like and get started.

To reset your window perspective, you may go to:

 Window Menu -> Reset Perspective

Wallen

I already had the themes downloaded, but the existing colors in the image seem to sit on top of whatever theme I pick. So, I figured it had to the the text edtiro, I tried resetting them to default, white...none seems to work. Resetting Perespective seem to keep the colors, just regains the settings and layouts but not colors. – Gamaliel

This will not override EditBox – Sardanapalus