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In an earlier post, Jason Olson mentioned the "Darkest Dark" plug-in.
Instead, I tried Window|Preferences|General|Appearance|Enable
theming|Theme:Dark. WOW!
The result--colored tokens on a black background--makes for much better
readability and IMO far better than the "Rational IDE"/"Classic" default
theme. Works in 9.6 and 9.8.
RDi's default theme may be the reason people try it and roll back to SEU.
"Green screen" is a dark theme as are SEU, SDA, RLU, and the command
line--it's what people are used to.
Yes, most web pages have dark text on a white background but the nature of
the content is usually far different and the method with which the content
is processed differs as well. Would tokenizing and coloring text improve
comprehension or uptake speed? Dunno (it would make a terrific PhD
dissertation). With most text, you can miss "noise" words but still have
high comprehension. With code, every character counts, and sometimes
spaces too. A dark background makes colors stand out and those colors
promote understanding the code more effectively.
If you've used Visual Studio or VS Code, what's the default theme? Asking
for a friend.
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