TextMate’s themes provide syntax coloring based on scopes. TextMate comes with a number of themes, but more user created themes are available at the wiki. I have tried my hand at creating themes. Creating a usable and attractive theme is much harder than it might initially seem. (Hats off, then, to theme designers like Thomas Aylott.) There are a lot of light and dark themes, but I would like a middle-weight theme. MagicWB (Amiga) is a perversely attractive middle-weight theme, but lacks adequate support for LaTeX documents. One obstacle I have encountered developing a middle-weight theme (and probably the reason there are so few) is posed by color contrast effects. (Perhaps the only reason I persist, despite the problems and my evident lack of talent is because of the connection with my current research in the philosophy of color.) I have finally produced a theme that I am willing to share, Soylent Green. It is a modification of Jamie van Dyke’s theme, Succulent which is, in turn, based on Soryu’s theme, Sunburst. Click on the thumbnail below for a screenshot.
Soylent Green can be downloaded here. I am currently working on a gray theme optimized for Markdown, LaTeX, and Mail, but it is not ready for prime time. When it is, I will post it.
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The link for the theme is not working.
Sorry, Juan, the link is fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out.
Thanks. It’s a nice theme, but it doesn’t look like your screenshot. Some declarations, like “documentclass” and “usepackage” are, red some others like “newcommand”, are brownish and some others yellow-ish, but none are like yours.
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