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I have previously asked about an external diff tool for eclipse as I find it hard to see the diffs in the eclipse built in diff as everything is a shade of grey instead of the useful diff viewers in IDEA and Netbeans.
How to use external diff viewers in eclipse? Is there any diff viewer available for eclipse inbuilt?
However, today I used the Code AnalytiX plugin to find similar code and the diff viewer that came up was a lot more visible with changes highlighted in red and green.
e.g.
How can I make the built in eclipse editor behave like that instead of the default greys:
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Changing the Color Theme To change the color theme in your editor: Go to Window | Preferences | General | Appearance | Color Theme. The list of available Eclipse color themes is displayed.
On Windows the platform color and font settings are found on the General > Colors and Fonts preference page. The font used by most widgets in Eclipse is the one set in the Message Box settings of the properties.
The Syntax Coloring Preferences Preferences page is accessed from Window | Preferences | PHP | Editor | Syntax Coloring Preferences . To configure the colors and fonts for an item: Select the required item from the Syntax element list. Click on Foreground or Background to select a color.
All of these colors can be adjusted via the following preference pages: General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts > Basic (Error text, hyperlink text, active hyperlink text) General > Editors > Text Editors (Foreground, background and other appearance colors) General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations (Text editors annotation colors)
In the color selection dialog, tab twice to go from the Basic Color matrix to the Define Custom Colors button and press Enter. You can now enter the basic colors using an HSL or RGB specification according to the following definitions.
Inside of the properties you can change all the colors and fonts. You are looking for
General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts -> Text Compare
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