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changing jEdit colors


SpiceWare

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I don't care at all for the default colors used by jEdit:

 

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The main thing I don't like is how the white background overpowers the colors. So I change it to black by doing the following:

  • Select Utilities menu
  • Select Global Options... menu option
  • In the jEdit section select Text Area
  • Change the Text color from black to white
  • Change the Background color from white to black
  • Click OK

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From here I like to change some of the colors so they stand out more. There's two different ways to do this. The first way:

  • position the caret (blinking cursor) on the text you wish to change the color of - such as the 6502 opcode lda
  • Select Utilities menu
  • Select Quick settings sub menu
  • Select the Edit Syntax Style of token under caret menu option
  • Change the Italic, Bold, Text color and Background color to whatever you'd like.
    Note: to change color, click the small colored square.
  • click OK

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The second way lets you change all the colors at once:

  • Select Utilities menu
  • Select Global Options... menu option
  • In the jEdit section select Syntax Highlighting
  • Click on any row to change the color for the token types.
    Note: make sure the token type INVALID has a different background color. My mode files use INVALID to make the graphics in binary data stand out.
  • In the jEdit section select Text Area
  • Choices here include the color of the selected text and the current line.
    I also like to click on Text Font to change the Font and Font Size
    as well as check the thick checkbox to the right of Caret, which makes it easier to locate the cursor
  • Click OK

 

My Syntax Highlighting colors:

 

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My Text Area settings - besides some color choices, I also changed the font and turned off anti-aliasing.

 

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Here's jEdit with my changes:

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If you've installed the console, you might like to edit the colors it uses as well.

  • Select the Plugins menu
  • Select the Plugins Options... menu option
  • In the Console group select General
  • Click the buttons to set color
  • Click OK

 

The buttons don't show the current color for some reason:

 

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I made mine look like an old amber monitor (color FFBF00):

 

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Maybe one of their developers has astigmatism.

 

For plain text with limited color changes, like this blog entry, I don't mind a white background. It's only when there's lots of different colors that I find it overwhelming.

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Realized the Houston Arcade Expo's only a month away, so jEdit updates are going on the back burner for a bit as I like to revise my presentation for each event.

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I see this is on the "back burner" I just want to mention before I forget.

In Mac OSX it seems apple has stopped updating Java.

You must install newer versions from the Java website downloads.

Even though I was at the latest OSX 10.9.5, the newest Java I had was 1.6.

 

The jEdit 5.2 pre-release requires Java version 1.7.

jEdit 5.2 is nicer for a number of reasons. It acts more like an Application as it doesn't spawn a java program.

The errors (reported as warnings at the bottom right) in running the 5.1 in Java 1.6 are gone.

It has a "jE" icon now.

 

I don't think it is coming across the fact that this is less like a text editor and more like an IDE environment.

Granted it doesn't have the Utility Program Editors that Visual bB has for sprites, playfields, music and sound, color value chooser, and exhaustive syntax checking (i.e. If a goto label has a label to go to or not).

I may still start my Basic projects in Visual bB because it has helped a great deal pointing out errors, but when projects get large near the end, the Visual bB editor becomes unable to handle things and I find it best to switch to jEdit which can parallel the way I work in Visual bB.

I have it set so I can make changes, save, compile, and run Stella just like I use Visual bB.

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