![]() The BBEdit Dark color scheme looks fantastic with the broader Dark Mode theme in Mac OS, but if you want a little more contrast than the “Xcode Dark” color scheme might be what you’re looking for since it uses brighter text. The effect is immediate and assuming you have any active window open you’ll immediately see the visual change. * BBedit can use the dark color schemes without the general MacOS appearance set to dark mode, but if you’re aiming for a cohesive dark mode experience than you’ll want to toggle Dark Mode on first. Pull down the ‘Color scheme’ dropdown menu and choose one of the dark color schemes: “BBEdit Dark”, “Xcode Dark”, “Toothpaste”, “Douce nuit 4”, or make your own by choosing “New”.Select the “Text Colors” preference from the sidebar. ![]() Pull down the “BBEdit” menu and choose “Preferences”.Put the Mac into Dark Mode and then open BBEdit *.Using Dark Mode Color Schemes in BBEditĪccessing the BBEdit dark color schemes is simple: You can use these same color schemes in Light mode, or in much earlier versions of Mac OS (or BBEdit). To be clear, using the dark color schemes in BBEdit does not require Dark Mode on the Mac, it just pairs well together. If you spend a considerable amount of time in a text editor for scripting, programming, development, code review, or writing and editing with a markup language, and you also work on a Mac at night, or in dimly lit areas, or even if you just prefer darker color themes and darker themed syntax highlighting for your text editing, then you’ll almost certainly want to explore and use the various BBEdit dark color schemes. And I can stumble around in the other major editor, as well as any GUI editor, too.BBEdit, the excellent text editor for Mac, includes some very nice Dark Mode favorable color schemes, each of which compliment the Mac Dark Mode theme quite well. I think it was worth the effort to learn one editor well. I can program it to do anything I'd want an editor to do, and more. I've used it on a genuine (hardware) VT-220, as well as on xterm windows, and various other terminal windows. I won't tell you whether I prefer emacs or vi, but I will say that I've been using the same editor for around 25 years, on a boatload of hardware platforms and operating systems. Each side has too much invested it learning the way their editor works. The emacs and vi users may argue the merits of their respective editors, but the arguments are somewhat pointless, as they never end up convincing someone to switch sides. For example, they mostly don't search and replace using regular expressions. The "whatever GUI flavor of the week" people tend to switch between editors, and don't use very powerful commands. Some charge money, others are bundled with an unusual operating system. ![]() There are some other editors that are virtually as powerful and customizable as vi or emacs, but most of these aren't as easily available on all platforms. Certainly DOS, Windows, any flavor of Linux, Unix, or MacOS don't present a problem. Both editors are available on virtually any distribution of almost any OS from the past 25 years or so. Both of these camps invest a bit of time learning the tricks of their editors, and committing elaborate sequences to muscle memory so that complex tasks become automatic. Both the emacs and vi crowds like the fact that their editors are extremely powerful and customizable. In the editor wars, I know of three large camps: The emacs crowd, the vi (vim) crowd, and the "whatever GUI flavor of the week" crowd. ![]()
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