[plt-scheme] How do you change the error highlight color?

That color is only switchable implicitly, when you click the "white on
black". Unfortunately, that will also set all of your other colors,
presumably ruining all of your hard work setting all those other
colors.

You can evaluate this, however:

  (require (lib "framework.ss" "framework"))
  (preferences:set 'framework:white-on-black? #t)

first quit, drscheme, evaluate that in mred, and then restart drscheme
(just to be safe with the preferences lockfiles, etc).

That should change a few different things to work better for you.

Robby

On 5/31/07, Kyle Smith <airfoil at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I recently completely changed my color scheme in DrScheme,
> moving from the default page white background to a very
> dark blue hue.  It took a while of experimenting, but I've now
> got my editor text in bright white, and my parentheses in
> absolute black, with most other text in medium saturated
> hues of different color with relatviely high luminance.  I find
> that this color scheme, as I think Eli pointed out previously,
> is quite a bit easier on the eyes, especially at night, which
> is when I do most of my coding.
>
> However, there are two colors I don't seem to be able to
> control, which spoil an otherwise very workable color
> scheme.  The most dreadful of all is the quite bright,
> under saturated reddish hue color used to highlight
> text in the editor to indicate the code involved in raiseing
> an error.  It works quite nicely on a bright background,
> but it completely obscures my view of the code on a dark
> background.  All I can see are the black parentheses.  Even
> the arrows, drawn to indicate essentially a visual stack trace
> are completely obscured.  I've gone through every tab in
> the color preferences and I can't find a color that comes
> close to the error highlight color.
>
> Have I overlooked something, or is the color hard coded
> into the source, and if so, where would that be?
>
> The other color that I can't seem to control is the color
> used to display the current language.  On my system it's
> a shade of green that is nearly invisible against the dark
> blue background.
>
> Again, if anyone knows where these colors are set I'd be
> very greatful to here about it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --kyle
> airfoil at bellsouth dot net
> schemekeys.blogspot.com
>
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