DOS ain't dead

As Jim Hall recently published a YouTube video about Setting the colors in the FED editor, I'd like to share several color themes of mine. I created these nearly two years ago and most are inspired by other more or less known programs.

Because FED capabilities regarding color themes are limited, often I couldn't just replicate the original program's themes, but had to decide which way to go. Some themes only exist for completeness, because I found them boring, but YMMV.

I would be happy to see your themes too.

Do install any of these themes, quit FED and open your FED's fed.cfg file with another text editor. Then paste the values from the forum over the # colors block.

(THE) AURORA EDITOR

Home: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~knassen/aurora.html

Blue-green

It all started in 2007, when I converted this theme.



NormCol=31
UICol=155
SelCol=59
FoldCol=225
KeywordCol=27
CommentCol=26
StringCol=28
NumberCol=28
SymbolCol=23

Fluorescent

Aurora also offers a fluorescent theme.



NormCol=7
UICol=208
SelCol=169
FoldCol=224
KeywordCol=11
CommentCol=10
StringCol=12
NumberCol=12
SymbolCol=3

Green Charcoal



NormCol=7
UICol=130
SelCol=129
FoldCol=224
KeywordCol=11
CommentCol=10
StringCol=12
NumberCol=12
SymbolCol=3

Red and Blue



NormCol=3
UICol=207
SelCol=241
FoldCol=224
KeywordCol=11
CommentCol=10
StringCol=12
NumberCol=12
SymbolCol=7

Wimbledon



NormCol=3
UICol=27
SelCol=49
FoldCol=224
KeywordCol=11
CommentCol=10
StringCol=12
NumberCol=12
SymbolCol=7

Wimbledon #2

Wimbledon #2 and Wimbledon #3 were created by myself.



NormCol=3
UICol=22
SelCol=160
FoldCol=224
KeywordCol=11
CommentCol=10
StringCol=13
NumberCol=12
SymbolCol=7

Wimbledon #3

Wimbledon #2 and Wimbledon #3 were created by myself.



NormCol=11
UICol=22
SelCol=52
FoldCol=96
KeywordCol=3
CommentCol=2
StringCol=13
NumberCol=12
SymbolCol=14

CVIEW

Home: http://www.freudenbergs.de/bert/software.html

Color Set 1 (default)

Just swaps "StringCol" and "NumberCol" values from PASVIEW.

Color Set 1 (Alt+F5)

Same as PASVIEW.

FAR MANAGER BUILT-IN EDITOR

Home: https://www.farmanager.com/



NormCol=27
UICol=48
SelCol=48
FoldCol=225
KeywordCol=31
CommentCol=19
StringCol=30
NumberCol=26
SymbolCol=31

HALL, JIM

Jim Hall's favorite theme.



NormCol=23
UICol=112
SelCol=113
FoldCol=78
KeywordCol=31
CommentCol=25
StringCol=22
NumberCol=18
SymbolCol=19

KING, GERED

Gered King uses this for the TP7 IDE.



NormCol=7
UICol=112
SelCol=113
FoldCol=46
KeywordCol=11
CommentCol=2
StringCol=14
NumberCol=13
SymbolCol=3

KULAK COMMANDER

Home: http://kulakcommander.sourceforge.net/

Default (v2.51)



NormCol=7
UICol=128
SelCol=240
FoldCol=224
KeywordCol=10
CommentCol=11
StringCol=14
NumberCol=13
SymbolCol=15

Notepad (v2.51)

Look for line scheme= in kc.ini.



NormCol=240
UICol=128
SelCol=15
FoldCol=172
KeywordCol=242
CommentCol=243
StringCol=246
NumberCol=253
SymbolCol=241

Screenshot-inspired (v2.12)

Source: http://kulakcommander.sourceforge.net/kc_editor.gif



NormCol=27
UICol=176
SelCol=240
FoldCol=225
KeywordCol=26
CommentCol=27
StringCol=30
NumberCol=29
SymbolCol=31

MS-DOS EDITOR AND MATEUSZ'S SAUCY EDITOR

Home: https://www.microsoft.com/ & https://sourceforge.net/projects/msedit/



NormCol=23
UICol=112
SelCol=112
FoldCol=225
KeywordCol=23
CommentCol=23
StringCol=23
NumberCol=23
SymbolCol=23

NOTEPAD2

Home: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Built-in (light)



NormCol=240
UICol=128
SelCol=112
FoldCol=176
KeywordCol=241
CommentCol=242
StringCol=242
NumberCol=252
SymbolCol=245

Notepad2 does not support different color themes, but it inspired me enough to create these rather dark variants.

Dark



NormCol=7
UICol=128
SelCol=135
FoldCol=96
KeywordCol=1
CommentCol=2
StringCol=2
NumberCol=4
SymbolCol=8

Dark #2



NormCol=8
UICol=128
SelCol=33
FoldCol=96
KeywordCol=5
CommentCol=1
StringCol=2
NumberCol=4
SymbolCol=3

PASVIEW

Home: http://www.freudenbergs.de/bert/software.html

Color Set 1 (default)



NormCol=27
UICol=48
SelCol=113
FoldCol=225
KeywordCol=30
CommentCol=23
StringCol=29
NumberCol=28
SymbolCol=27

Color Set 2 (Alt+F5)



NormCol=31
UICol=113
SelCol=49
FoldCol=225
KeywordCol=26
CommentCol=23
StringCol=27
NumberCol=28
SymbolCol=31

MICROSOFT QUICKPASCAL

Home: https://www.microsoft.com/

Color Set 1 (default)



NormCol=23
UICol=112
SelCol=113
FoldCol=94
KeywordCol=21
CommentCol=18
StringCol=19
NumberCol=23
SymbolCol=23

Color Set 2



NormCol=15
UICol=48
SelCol=224
FoldCol=30
KeywordCol=1
CommentCol=2
StringCol=3
NumberCol=14
SymbolCol=14

Color Set 3



NormCol=23
UICol=112
SelCol=113
FoldCol=94
KeywordCol=31
CommentCol=18
StringCol=19
NumberCol=23
SymbolCol=23

RIEBISCH, ROBERT

Yes, that's me.

Emerald

Lots of green.



NormCol=7
UICol=48
SelCol=112
FoldCol=46
KeywordCol=11
CommentCol=10
StringCol=4
NumberCol=6
SymbolCol=3

Emerald #2

Even more green.



NormCol=7
UICol=48
SelCol=112
FoldCol=42
KeywordCol=11
CommentCol=2
StringCol=5
NumberCol=6
SymbolCol=3

TURBO PASCAL 5.5

Home: https://www.embarcadero.com/



NormCol=30
UICol=112
SelCol=113
FoldCol=196
KeywordCol=30
CommentCol=30
StringCol=30
NumberCol=30
SymbolCol=30

TURBO PASCAL 7

Home: https://www.embarcadero.com/



NormCol=30
UICol=112
SelCol=113
FoldCol=196
KeywordCol=31
CommentCol=23
StringCol=30
NumberCol=30
SymbolCol=30

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Forum admin

Thanks for sharing these. I prefer "Green Charcoal" the best. Easy on the eyes.

I love the Fluorescent one.
I'm a little biassed towards pink/magenta

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> KULAK COMMANDER
>
> Home: http://kulakcommander.sourceforge.net/

Meanwhile I verified color settings. They were correct, but I was just confused, because in FED there is no difference between "#include ..." and "int ...", but in KC there is.

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Forum admin

I created and added the Emerald theme to the list.

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Forum admin

I added the following:
* a 2nd variant of my Emerald theme
* one theme by Jim Hall
* one theme by Gered King

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Forum admin

Thanx. These are great.

I don't really use FED, but is great to have an option.

Btw, one of these reminds of VIM's default theme on DOS.

> Thanx. These are great.

Thanks for your feedback.

> Btw, one of these reminds of VIM's
> default theme on DOS.

May I ask which one?

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Sorry for the late reply. :)

> > Btw, one of these reminds of VIM's default theme on DOS.
>
> May I ask which one?

I think "dark #2".

Haven't started it in a while. I hope my memory serves me right.

Actually, this is the exact look:

> Actually, this is the exact look:
>
>

You are right, but that is interesting, because I'm no VIM user.

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> As Jim Hall recently published a YouTube video about
> Setting the colors in the
> FED editor, I'd like to share several color themes of mine. I created
> these nearly two years ago and most are inspired by other more or less
> known programs.

[snip]

rr, thanks for these!

FWIW, here's my own minor contribution, which is intentionally very minimalist and boring (and seemingly against the current trend of "dark themes"), and primarily gets used on Windows (my current DOS FED theme is a variant of this with a blue background and some other tweaks, similar to some others in your collection):

# colors
NormCol=240
UICol=27
SelCol=31
FoldCol=127
KeywordCol=240
CommentCol=242
StringCol=240
NumberCol=240
SymbolCol=240

It (again, intentionally) only colors comments and nothing else re: programming language syntaxes (e.g., anything defined in fed.syn), and otherwise just tries to call attention to selections and folds. But strings, numbers, keywords, etc. are all just the same (black) text.