Customising syntax highlighing is too hard

[WalMast]

Just a grumble… customising syntax highlighting is far too difficult. Ridiculously difficult really, compared to other text editors, for what should be a basic customisation ability.

[wbond]

What are you trying to accomplish?

[WalMast]

Take Java syntax highlighting for example. I know I can just try different preset themes. But if I don’t like any, and just want to change keywords to blue, for example, how do I achieve that? In Ultraedit, I can just bring up a dialog window and select different colours for text, comments, keywords etc.

[kingkeith]

it’s not hard to customize a color scheme, but if you want a GUI, try

SchemeEditor

So I've finally updated my ColorSchemeEditor; renamed to SchemeEditor to avoid confusion with the one on PackageControl. [preview] The big thing I was waiting for was the ability to have the actual editor on PyPi. This is good as distributing binaries like I was probably wasn't compatible with my wxPython license and the license I use... The big difference is you have to pip install the tool now (pip install subclrschm), and then point the plugin at it (check documentation). This is much…

[WalMast]

It looks promising, but I can’t install Python on my work PC to install subclrschm.

[ThomSmith]

Someone made a web-based editor.

Or you can use CSScheme to edit color schemes via CSS or Sass.

[wbond]

Just for the record, Sublime Text uses the term “color scheme” to refer to the colors used in syntax highlighting.

The official reference for creating a color scheme is at http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/color_schemes.html.