Hi, The colouring for the django template tags and variables etc have a light green background, which I hate. I have been through all the configuration and can't find where to change this. Could someone please give me a pointer as to where this is configured?
Dave
This appears to be coming from the Editor > Syntax Coloring > Syntax Formatting preference, for the Django Template file type. From playing with it, it was the asp_python_default, asp_python_word, and asp_python_identifier lexer states, but all of the asp_python_* ones seem to be using that background.
These defaults seem like they are designed more for light background display themes. Also, I'm not sure why the lexer states listed in the preference are not properly alphabetized. We'll try to improve this in the future.
Also, it seems to work better with Nord and One Dark display palettes and not as well with Black Background and some of the others. I think the colors are being adjusted to make them visible on the background but from the looks of it something is going wrong, possibly using the wrong background.
Hi, Thanks for the rapid response. I did notice that light coloured themes looked better. In the meantime, I'll have a play around and see if I can find something I like. Dave
Just a thought but is there a workaround? I'm also a little surprised nobody else has reported this.
Using One Dark or Nord for the User Interface > Display Theme preference seems to work around the readability problem for me.
Hi, I just wondered if there is any progress on this being addressed yet, please? Even using One Dark or Nord makes the code look really ugly and really quite hard to read at a glance especially in django template files where there is a lot of these tags and variables. These tend to jump out at you and tend to be a distraction when reading There does not appear to be a setting for this in my preferences and I can't really understand why these should have a background colouring anyway. The whole experience is driving me to use sublime text to edit files rather than Wing IDE, especially these template files.
No, it looks like there hasn't been progress on this, I think in part because there's a work-around. Did you try changing the asp_python_* colors in the Editor > Syntax Coloring > Syntax Formatting preference as described in the answer above? The problem is the background they are using. I'll see if we can increase the priority on this one.
To follow up on this: There's a fix going into 8.1.0.1+ (will probably be out in a few days) so that the colors are at least legible. I'm still not a fan of the use of background color here but at least the text will be visible. Looking at improving the default colors is a separate item we'll look at also.
Yes, I too am certainly not a fan of the background colour and it is this which I find it horrible to read despite using Nord or One Dark. I'm certainly looking forward to a permanent fix. Also a mechanism within configuration for changing colours for this would be nice as there isn't anything at the moment.
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