Eclipse - editor colors - a healthy configuration

Question

I use Eclipse for Java, Python, C(++) and so on. I'm accustomed to Vim and the dark color schemes. The default white background just hurts my eyes. And that's a real problem. It doesn't seem Eclipse supports any schemes? I tried a Plugin but it doesn't seem to work for MacOS and Eclipse 3.3.2.

Is there any better option for some color support?

Thanks, wishi

Gahnite

This question seems closely related to "Dark colorscheme for eclipse?"... – Grandfatherly

See also: best-background-color-for-your-editor here on SO – Acuminate

Answer 1

Please check Fonts and colors in Eclipse for customization of Eclipse.

Purplish

Answer 2

There are some dark color themes available in the Eclipse Color Theme plugin:

http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-color-theme

Waggish

Answer 3

Note: Eclipse Luna (4.4, to be released in June 2014) just introduced (May 2014) a default syntax coloring for dark theme when using the Koneki project: see bug 433607, by Simon Bernard:

That illustrates how you can define your own syntax coloring theme and how you can register an extension to the dark theme for recent (4.x) Eclipse.

Rescript

The colour fonts for Python development is a bit off with Dark Luna. – Pedersen

Answer 4

Go to "Preferences" under the "Window" menu.

In the dialog that pops up, select General, then Appearance, then Colors and Fonts

Correction: for editor foreground / background colors, you need to go to the preferences dialog, then select Editors, then Text Editors

Servant

Answer 5

You can also go to your source code, press the right mouse button, select an option under "Appearance color options:" and change the color using the "Color:" selector displayed.

Bibliomancy