I am using PowerShell and I have run into the issue that I cannot distinguish certain colored text from the background. I have tried to go with default PowerShell blue, black, white, grey... There is a problem with all colors. For example with white - vagrant is colored yellow. If I choose black or blue then I cannot see Laravel's artisan which is blue (inside vagrant box). On grey I think I didn't read yellow and the bring green from logging into vagrant.
It's not as if I can change the background on the go as it often retains the background color as text background color. Also switching constantly would be annoying. I have tried Googling said issue but I have not come across anything that corresponds to the issue I am having. Surely there is a solution for this somehow?
I am posting this as a separate post since the only response I got was missing a few details to make it complete.
If you ever run across this error, then you indeed go to Properties > Colors and not only change the background color but change all the other colors presets to match. They are not there to offer you some presets to choose from, which I mistakenly believed - they are actual color definitions used by the console. When you are done, make sure that the selected colors for background, text etc have not shifted.
For example: PowerShell is dark blue. As such you cannot use colors that are similar and the bright regular blue I will change to light blue, which stands out easily. And voilá.
You should be able to change the text color for specific syntax in the colors tab. In the properties tab when you right click on power shell. Go to colors tab and edit it according
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In a dgml file, an expanded Node can have the Background color set which changes the background of the border and title bar. The Foreground color sets the color of the title text.
The body currently seems to be filled with a color that depends on the current color theme selected in the Visual Studio options dialog. This means some people end up with white backgrounds and some black. This causes issues, especially when trying to export as xps to print the diagram. A massive block of black ink is a waste of ink!
How can the color of the body of the expanded Node be specified?
No it cannot. It was a "UI design" decision. Filling the entire group background with color conflicted too much with the VS color scheme. For example, a dark theme editor showing tons of White looks ugly, and a light themed VS showing tons of dark colors also looks ugly...sorry.
I have a problem with the Visual Studio 2015 editor. I changed the background color to black. It is very hard to identify selected text, which becomes a problem while coding.
So I went to Tools/Options/Fonts and Colors and in the settings for Text Editor I changed the choices for the display item Selected Text. The Item foreground option cannot be changed. So I tried to change the Item background option to red. The sample displayed has a bright red background and yellow characters. This is not what I see on my screen: a dark background with a very faint reddish tint and white characters. The background is almost indistinguishable from the editor's overall pitch black background. Choosing other colors instead of red makes things worse: no tint is displayed around the characters.
Is there a way to make selected text clearly identifiable in VS 2015?
This will keep you busy for a while. Consider using readily available color schemes, like Tools > Options > Environment > General > Color theme = Dark. Google "vs2015 dark color theme" for more.
I changed my theme from white to black. The line numbers won't change to the correct foreground and background.
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Why's that?
Any answers appreciated.
I found a way of how to fix it:
You go to Tools->Options->Environment->Font and Colors
Choose line numbers, choose different background, click OK, go back and set it again to default.
Ok. I am finding it difficult to visually discern where the current focus of my editor is. The image below shows that I am currently in the bottom PathIcon tag while the top PathIcon tag is highlighted because it is a matching type. The similarity in color has finally driven me crazy.
Does anyone know the correct text-type in the Fonts and Colors dialog of Visual Studio 2015 to change this color? And, look, for all the StackOverflow haters trolling the board, please resist closing this q until there is an answer. Then you can have your fun.
It looks like there are actually two different colors in play here. The grey box on the "<PathIcon" that contains the cursor is "Brace Matching (Rectangle)". The purplish box on the other "PathIcon" looks like it is the background portion of the "Match color", which is installed by the pro power tools.
The latter color won't reset if you change the color in fonts and colors but will be correct for editor instances you open after changing the color.
I think you're looking for Highlight Current Line (Active), which controls the colors of the line your cursor is on.
For example, by default, background colors is green or red. I'd like to have green/red as a foreground, and background to be my default color (which is white).
Because it's really hard to see anything on light terminal color scheme, since foreground is black and background changes to red or green.
In the mocha source there is a file called base.js under the reporters directory. There you can alter the colors according to the bash color guide. http://misc.flogisoft.com/bash/tip_colors_and_formatting
You can change the project.json entry for test to mocha -C to disable all coloring in the terminal output, for better readability.