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GoodToGo!

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Joined: 23/04/2017
Location: Australia
Posts: 188
Posted: 12:17am 23 Aug 2017
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Hey TassyJim,

Is it possible to change the default colors/colours used in MMedit?
I'd like to change the default color/colour of the comments to something that stands out a bit more when printing. I was thinking a green but it clashes with stuff in quotes. Maybe a mid blue? Orange? Smaragdine? Coquelicot? Glaucous? Amaranth?

I love using MMedit, but I'm finding I'm using Notepad++ more and more these days because I can change little things like this, have more than one file open at a time and can 'fold' subs/functions.

Cheers,

GTG!
...... Don't worry mate, it'll be GoodToGo!
 
TassyJim

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Joined: 07/08/2011
Location: Australia
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Posted: 12:45pm 23 Aug 2017
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From the help, under Configure/Editor colours
  Quote  The Editor and VT terminal colours are store in "colours.inf" the file can be found in the data folder.

All folder locations are shown in Help/About...

If you edit colours.inf, do not change the number of lines or the order of the lines.

The standard file is:

Selected Foreground = 255 255 255
Selected Background = 000 000 128
Active line = 245 245 210
Line number = 000 000 000
background = 255 255 255
comment = 130 130 130
keywords = 000 000 255
numbers = 255 000 000
quote = 050 180 050
branch = 150 000 150
normal text = 000 000 000
line marker = 000 128 255
brace highlight = 000 000 255
bad brace = 255 000 000
indent guide = 200 200 200
call tips back = 251 251 249
white space back = 250 250 250
VT black = 000 000 000
VT red = 205 000 000
VT green = 000 205 000
VT yellow = 225 225 000
VT blue = 000 000 255
VT magenta = 205 000 205
VT cyan = 000 205 205
VT white = 255 255 255

Colours for editor and VT terminal.
Do not change the order or number of lines.

The colour are defined by RED GREEN BLUE, each ranging from 0 to 255 with a single space character between each value.

If you prefer grey instead of yellow for comments in the VT terminal, change
VT yellow = 225 225 000
to
VT yellow = 130 130 130

You will have to restart MMEdit for the change to take effect


Jim
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GoodToGo!

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Joined: 23/04/2017
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Posts: 188
Posted: 04:14pm 23 Aug 2017
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Aha!

That's where I was going wrong, I was modifying the colours.inf file in the install directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\CCom\MMedit\data) and wondering why no changes were happening...

Thanks Jim!

GTG!
...... Don't worry mate, it'll be GoodToGo!
 
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