[racket] DrRacket custom color schemes?

From: Byron Gibson (fbg111 at gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jul 18 15:46:54 EDT 2010

Thanks Neil, Robby, and Laurent.  Those several good options to play
with.  The default white on black is good enough that I don't need
something specialized like zenburn, but will revisit this after I've
worked through HTDP and know Scheme and the environment better.

Much appreciated.
Byron

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
>>> On Saturday, July 17, 2010, Byron Gibson <fbg111 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi all, is it possible to add custom syntax highlighting color schemes
>>>> to DrRacket?  For example, the popular zenburn theme?
>>
>> I played with this briefly last night.  You can indeed implement something
>> like zenburn by setting various color preferences interactively through the
>> GUI dialog, and the settings are stored in "racket-prefs.rktd".
>>
>> However, they didn't look like I could comfortably say in a blog entry,
>> "copy&paste these few lines into your racket-prefs.rktd and it will work".
>
> Oh, right! That's probably the best way to do this. You could even
> write a little program that would call the frameworks' preference:set
> with the appropriate values to set a color-scheme.
>
> Robby
>



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Byron

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