[pmonks]

Environment:
Windows 2000
Eclipse 3.0.1
MyEclipseIDE 3.8.2 GA

Problem:
The colour of quotes (‘) and double quotes (“) in the HTML and JSP editors cannot be configured. What’s worse is that they default to black, so if you change the background to black you can’t see them at all.

In order for configurable colour highlighting to be usable, all text elements in all of the editors must be fully configurable (both the foreground and background colours).

[Scott Anderson]

Moving to enhancements.

[pmonks]

G’day Scott,

Do you really think this is an enhancement? Shouldn’t syntax highlighting work properly if I happen to set my background colour to something other than white?

I’ve been raising bugs on this topic (syntax highlighting not working properly with anything but a white background) for more than a year now, and I’m beginning to get a tad upset that it’s still not working properly.

Cheers,
Peter

[Riyad Kalla]

Peter,
I believe this is already filed in our system, I’ll find it and try and bump the priority. I think the reason Scott marks it as an enhancement is because programatically the editors do not currently allow you to change the color of these special characters, so from our view point, its a new feature (enhancement) that would need to be added. From a user perspective, ‘it doesn’t work right’, so its a bit confusing.

I’m sorry this is getting in the way of your work, admitedly enhancements like this where only a few people (2-3) have brought it up get less attention than the 100 or so that are demanding Spring support, WEb services support and the like… but we are really trying to strike a good balance between features/cohesion in MyEclipse, so enhancements like these are very important as well. I’ll see what I can do.

[pmonks]

G’day Riyad,

Thanks for explaining the situation. To be fair the syntax highlighting functionality has gotten a lot better since 2.x days, but for those of us who use unusual colour schemes anything less than complete control makes the improvements a bit moot.

Cheers,
Peter

[pmonks]

G’day again,

I’ve just upgraded to 3.8.3 and was disappointed to find that this bug still hasn’t been fixed. Is there any way of requesting the addition of a QA cycle of the JSP editor with the background colour set to black prior to each release? The JSP editor is barely usable in this configuration.

Cheers,
Peter

[Riyad Kalla]

Peter,
One of our users actually found a manual workaround for this here:
https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/color-of-equals-symbol-in-html-editor-with-dark-background/#post-220406

It requires finding/changing a xml color configuration file in your workspace IIRC. We are still investigating the changes required to make this official and better supported in the GUI.

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