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C-TZ
C-TZ

Reputation: 659

How to change search background color in eclipse

I've been searching for about 40 minutes now and this is just so frustrating...

The standard search result background color in eclipse is freaking white and black. Everytime I search something I have to scan the screen for like 50 seconds before I find the spot where Eclipse has found something. I don't know which goon set it this way but he must be working with the goon who programmed the interface for configuring the colors... I can't find it.

Where do I change the background color of search results?

I feel ashamed to have to ask this here... but the things I've tried, like setting it in general>editors>text-editors>annotations didn't work.

Upvotes: 44

Views: 21414

Answers (10)

Ogre Psalm33
Ogre Psalm33

Reputation: 21946

I have also found, if you are looking at C++ code (at least in Eclipse Mars 2), changing the following option will set the highlight color of all occurrences of your current (or most recent) search, in case this is what you are looking for:

General->Editors->Text Editors->Annotations->C/C++ Occurrences

Why oh why this is not in the C++ preferences pane I will never know.

Upvotes: 0

MasterHD
MasterHD

Reputation: 2384

Also in the search results window (that lists all the findings in a tree), the background color is under a different setting: Windows->Preferences->General->Appearance->Colors and Fonts->Match highlighting background color.

Upvotes: 5

dojo
dojo

Reputation: 21

Old question but I will add my findings. I'm using a MacBook Pro Using Eclipse Mars.1, while I do a 'text' search (using Emacs). To set the search highlight (or background) color I do the following: Preferences->General->Editors->Text Editors see the Appearance color options section. Highlight the Selection background color and use the color palette to set your desired color. It is somewhat frustrating as the only way I could get this to work is to restart Eclipse. After the restart I am happy.

Upvotes: 2

rezeli
rezeli

Reputation: 163

You can change search background color like this: (works for Luna and previous versions)

In the Eclipse menu bar: Windows->Preferences->General->Editors->Text Editors->Annotations Then scroll down to "Search Results" and set the highlighted text color.

Upvotes: 4

roj
roj

Reputation: 1373

If you mean (as I think you do) how do you change the highlight colour of strings that match what you select in an editor (e.g. you double-click on 'filename' and Eclipse highlights other references to 'filename' in a dull grey background), then the following post answers this: Eclipse: How do you change the highlight color of the currently selected method/expression?

In a nutshell, you want: * General -> Editors -> Text Editors -> Annotations * Look for "Occurrences" in the Annotation types list and change it from grey to your favourite colour!

Upvotes: 1

Prabuddha
Prabuddha

Reputation: 11

To highlight the matching keywords in Juno

Windows->Preferences->General->Text Editor-.Annotations-> in Annotation Types box, look for Write Occurrences. Change the color there.

Upvotes: 1

DevDaddyNick
DevDaddyNick

Reputation: 101

This may not be true for all modes, but I'm using Eclipse with Flash Builder plugin on Mac, and it turned out I had to modify the current selection highlight:

General -> Editors -> Text Editors -> Selection Background Color

Upvotes: 9

John Lehmann
John Lehmann

Reputation: 8225

Same as @bityz's answer, except for me the annotation which mattered was "Occurrences". I tried this on Eclipse 4.3 Kepler.

Upvotes: 1

bityz
bityz

Reputation: 571

In the Eclipse menu bar: Windows->Preferences->General->Editors->Text Editors->Annotations

Then scroll down to "Search Results" and set the highlighted text color.

This works for Eclipse Helios and Eclipse Juno. I haven't tested other versions.

Upvotes: 57

Laura
Laura

Reputation: 1872

I am not sure I understand what you mean, but this might help, go to:

Eclipse -> Preferences -> General -> Search there is a line in the right that reads: "Foreground color for potential matches" and it has a box right next to it where you can change the colors. You can change the color of the search. Otherwise, you can also change the colors of what Eclipse highlights by going to:

Eclipse -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts -> Match Highlight background color
and change the color there.

Hope this helps! You can also look at this webpage:

http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Fconcepts%2Faccessibility%2Ffontsandcolors.htm

Upvotes: 10

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