Ask HN: What is your preferred text editor color scheme?

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I was wondering, what color schemes do hackers use when programming? is it mostly dark background or bright? does it change for different programming languages?

For people who use dark color scheme: doesn't it hurt your eye?

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I like the railscasts theme. I use it in macvim and sublime text 2. https://github.com/jpo/vim-railscasts-theme

Solarized Dark! Actually, dark schemes are better on the eyes than light ones, but when you're browsing while coding, most Webpages tend to have a bright background, and too frequent switches between the dark console and the light browser may tire the eyes. But for long coding hours, definitely a dark colour scheme.

I use Resesif color scheme.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/oUL5U.png

Download: https://github.com/sonereker/resesif.tmbundle

Emacs default for me, thanks! I used to play with color schemes, preferring Vim's desert and solarized among others, but if the screen's too bright now, I just turn down the brightness and/or make the font bigger.

Zenburn! It's beautiful and I use it for everything. It's dark and I can code for hours.

http://slinky.imukuppi.org/zenburnpage/

Sublime Text 2 and Tomorrow night scheme was a real discover for me.

sublime or textmate with Railscasts. It's a dark theme, very nice. I find it very clear, easy to distinct keywords, variables, methods, comments just by the color.

Solarized light for everything

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