Sublime to change COLOR of highlight_modified_tabs?

Question

In Sublime Text 2 editor, we can change the "Text Color" of "Modified/Edited Tabs" by using "highlight_modified_tabs": true like that. It works.

But it is bright red, how can i change the text color of it?

Answer 1

The correct location for these settings is in the packages folder for your installation (which can be opened using Preferences -> Browse Packages) inside the Theme - Default directory, in a file named Default.sublime-theme

Somewhere around line 570, the tab labels are configured.

They look a bit like this:

{
    "class": "tab_label",
    "parents": [{"class": "tab_control", "attributes": ["file_light"]}],
    "attributes": ["dirty"],
    "settings": ["highlight_modified_tabs"],
    "fg": [125, 00, 125]
},

You want to configure the ones whose settings attribute is set to ["highlight_modified_tabs"]. Change the fg property to the desired RGB value.

There are four different sections to change, and they seem to correspond to the shade of the tab background.

Note that it's not necessary to modify the default theme where it is. You can create a new file named Default.sublime-theme in the User packages directory, and store only your changes which will be applied after the main theme file.

I copy and pasted the four highlight_modified-tabs sections and modified the two that I wanted.

[packages]/User/Default.sublime-theme:

[
    {
        "class": "tab_label",
        "parents": [{"class": "tab_control", "attributes": ["file_light"]}],
        "attributes": ["dirty"],
        "settings": ["highlight_modified_tabs"],
        "fg": [125, 00, 125]
    },
    {
        "class": "tab_label",
        "parents": [{"class": "tab_control", "attributes": ["file_medium"]}],
        "attributes": ["dirty"],
        "settings": ["highlight_modified_tabs"],
        "fg": [125, 00, 125]
    },
    {
        "class": "tab_label",
        "parents": [{"class": "tab_control", "attributes": ["file_medium_dark"]}],
        "attributes": ["dirty"],
        "settings": ["highlight_modified_tabs"],
        "fg": [255, 161, 52]
    },
    {
        "class": "tab_label",
        "parents": [{"class": "tab_control", "attributes": ["file_dark"]}],
        "attributes": ["dirty"],
        "settings": ["highlight_modified_tabs"],
        "fg": [255, 161, 52]
    }
]