Why can’t I find a good IDE?
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I'd change colors for one language, check where the settings are saved (Linux: probably some dot something folder in your home folder) change ONE color for every other language, see how those are stored and write a script (I'd probably use Perl or Python, feel free to use anything else if it's faster for you) to "fill in the blanks" for the rest. I think I can do this very fast, matter of only a few minutes, and I'd save the scripts for any other occasion (or maybe saving a resulting color settings section is enough).
I don't use Eclipse, but I guess it's doable as I describe.
Alternatively, if I wouldn't be able to use script for some reason (binary stored settings?) I'd simply change the colors for the language I want to use at that moment. I'd postpone changing anything else until I need that something else. There's big chance that it would result in one language configured every other day, and that some languages that I think I'd need never get configured as I haven't had to really use them from Eclipse or whatever.
The question should be which language-specific IDEs are so good they're worth deviating for.