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

Posted by ishener on Sunday December 30, 2012 @09:52AM
from the ask-hn dept.

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?

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Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred text editor color scheme? by pairing on Sunday December 30, 2012 @03:13PM (#4986937)

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

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Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred text editor color scheme? by yati on Sunday December 30, 2012 @10:30AM (#4985920)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred text editor color scheme? by jarek-foksa on Sunday December 30, 2012 @01:41PM (#4986647)

I use Resesif color scheme.

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

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

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Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred text editor color scheme? by arh68 on Sunday December 30, 2012 @10:59AM (#4986031)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred text editor color scheme? by adrianm on Sunday December 30, 2012 @11:04AM (#4986056)

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

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

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Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred text editor color scheme? by angeldar on Sunday December 30, 2012 @11:40AM (#4986214)

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

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Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred text editor color scheme? by fidanov on Monday December 31, 2012 @05:10AM (#4988942)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred text editor color scheme? by venomsnake on Sunday December 30, 2012 @11:05AM (#4986063)

Solarized light for everything

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