parenthesis colours

[Hendrik Boom]

I use drracket in what I call night mode -- dark backgroun and bright
letters.
It's easier on the eyes,
except when I have to see parentheses.
They are presented in a dark shade of red.
Given how crucial parentheses are in Racket, this is an obstacle,
especially when the error-reporting mechanism highlights a part of the
code it thinks is in error -- using red highlighting, obscuring the
possibly unbalanced parentheses completely.

Is it possible to set parenthese to be some other colour, such as, say,
a bright green or white?

-- hendrik

[Robby Findler]

If you go to the preference dialog, choose "Colors", and then choose "Racket" you should be able to adjust each color independently.

There are also some themes for DrRacket in dark mode that have different color schemes; I think Tol's is installed by default and there are more on the pkg server.

hth,

Robby

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[Hendrik Boom]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 07:52:39AM -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
> Glad to hear it! Sorry the defaults looked bad.

They look pretty enough. They just aren't useful.
I turned the parentheses bright yellow.
Unless yellow comflicts with some other use of the same colour,
may I recommend it ne made default?

-- hendrik

>
> Robby
>
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 7:02 AM Hendrik Boom <hen...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:

>
> > On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 08:18:24AM -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
> > > If you go to the preference dialog, choose "Colors", and then choose
> > > "Racket" you should be able to adjust each color independently.
> > >
> > > There are also some themes for DrRacket in dark mode that have different
> > > color schemes; I think Tol's is installed by default and there are more
> > on
> > > the pkg server.

> > (offlist) Thank you. Much. much better now.
> >
> > -- hendrik

> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAL3TdOP7m7MsbRw8MDjevLuB5z9TDDp_AZCL5suTQbNJb9dujQ%40mail.gmail.com
> > .
> >

[Robby Findler]

I chose the paren default color to deemphasize the parentheses. I'm not sure that emphasizing them would be a good change. I can see how, on some monitors, the deemphasis might have been too much but I'm not quite ready to change that design choice!

Robby

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