Ask HN: What is your preferred text editor color scheme?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985813

by ishener • 14 years ago

4 8 14 years ago

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I was wondering, what color schemes do hackers use when programming? is it mostly dark background or bright? does it change for different programming languages?

For people who use dark color scheme: doesn't it hurt your eye?

yati• 14 years ago

Solarized Dark! Actually, dark schemes are better on the eyes than light ones, but when you're browsing while coding, most Webpages tend to have a bright background, and too frequent switches between the dark console and the light browser may tire the eyes. But for long coding hours, definitely a dark colour scheme.

arh68• 14 years ago

Emacs default for me, thanks! I used to play with color schemes, preferring Vim's desert and solarized among others, but if the screen's too bright now, I just turn down the brightness and/or make the font bigger.

adrianm• 14 years ago

Zenburn! It's beautiful and I use it for everything. It's dark and I can code for hours.

http://slinky.imukuppi.org/zenburnpage/

venomsnake• 14 years ago

Solarized light for everything

angeldar• 14 years ago

Sublime Text 2 and Tomorrow night scheme was a real discover for me.

jarek-foksa• 14 years ago

I use Resesif color scheme.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/oUL5U.png

Download: https://github.com/sonereker/resesif.tmbundle

pairing• 14 years ago

I like the railscasts theme. I use it in macvim and sublime text 2. https://github.com/jpo/vim-railscasts-theme

fidanov• 14 years ago

sublime or textmate with Railscasts. It's a dark theme, very nice. I find it very clear, easy to distinct keywords, variables, methods, comments just by the color.

Ask HN: What is your preferred text editor color scheme?

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