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Bug 332609

Summary:	[preferences] Add ability to set background color for different types of text editor
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Timothy Mowlem <tmowlem>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Timothy Mowlem

2010-12-15 05:28:44 EST

Build Identifier: 3.7M3

It is not possible to set a different background color (or foreground, or selection fg/bg colors) for different types of text editor (e.g. the java editor and the XML editor).

It would be nice to be able to set background color (and maybe the others) as an option on a per editor basis rather than globally for all text editors as at present.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2010-12-15 05:54:34 EST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 103163 ***

Comment 2 Eric Moffatt

2010-12-15 10:02:11 EST

Perhaps this could be addressed by using the new CSS capabilities. In order to do this we'd need some 'tag' (CSS pseudo-class) that could be styled against.

If we were to 'tag' the editor's widget with (for example) its editor's ID we should be able to write styling code against it.