How to change search background color in eclipse

Question

I've been searching for about 40 minutes now and this is just so frustrating...

The standard search result background color in eclipse is freaking white and black. Everytime I search something I have to scan the screen for like 50 seconds before I find the spot where Eclipse has found something. I don't know which goon set it this way but he must be working with the goon who programmed the interface for configuring the colors... I can't find it.

Where do I change the background color of search results?

I feel ashamed to have to ask this here... but the things I've tried, like setting it in general>editors>text-editors>annotations didn't work.

Answer 1

In the Eclipse menu bar: Windows->Preferences->General->Editors->Text Editors->Annotations

Then scroll down to "Search Results" and set the highlighted text color.

This works for Eclipse Helios and Eclipse Juno. I haven't tested other versions.

Answer 2

I am not sure I understand what you mean, but this might help, go to:

Eclipse -> Preferences -> General -> Search there is a line in the right that reads: "Foreground color for potential matches" and it has a box right next to it where you can change the colors. You can change the color of the search. Otherwise, you can also change the colors of what Eclipse highlights by going to:

Eclipse -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts -> Match Highlight background color
and change the color there.

Hope this helps! You can also look at this webpage:

http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Fconcepts%2Faccessibility%2Ffontsandcolors.htm