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J.Deschenes
J.Deschenes

Reputation: 11

LiClipse theme: Theme does not apply to strings

I use a particular color theme in the appearance preferences of LiClipse to change the appearance of the text in my editor for my PyDev projects. I can easily change the color of any type of data that the editor interprets, except for strings. (Perhaps there's more but I have yet to discover them)

I am able in the Preference setting window to set any colors for strings, and I do see it being applied in the preview that the window shows, but when I click Apply, the strings in my code stays plain white. I've tried editing a couple of other data's color, and they all work great.

Following is two screenshots showing the settings window just before pressing "Apply", and my resulting code, in that order. In the Preferences window, we can see in the preview that the "String" part is colored. Any color works. But then in my editor we can see that it did not apply, but all the other word object colors did.

Screenshot of preferences window

Code example that shows some colors

My guess is that perhaps the strings in the PyDev editor are not interpreted as string, but instead something else.

I'm using LiClipse 4.5.2.201803171104

On Windows 7.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 88

Answers (1)

J.Deschenes
J.Deschenes

Reputation: 11

After a couple of trial and errors, I found out that by default, strings in the LiClipse PyDev editor are interpreted as constant.

Therefore, editing the color of constant changes the display colors of strings in the editor.

Upvotes: 0

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