DOS ain't dead - Collection of color themes for the FED editor

Berlin, Germany,
15.08.2022, 21:07

Collection of color themes for the FED editor (Users)

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.

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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.

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

Green Charcoal

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

Red and Blue

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

Wimbledon

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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.

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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.

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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/

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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

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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/

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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)

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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

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

Dark #2

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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)

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

Color Set 2 (Alt+F5)

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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)

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

Color Set 2

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

Color Set 3

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

RIEBISCH, ROBERT

Yes, that's me. :-D

Emerald

Lots of green.

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

Emerald #2

Even more green.

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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/

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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/

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

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Zyzzle 16.08.2022, 05:14 @ rr	Collection of color themes for the FED editor Post reply
	Thanks for sharing these. I prefer "Green Charcoal" the best. Easy on the eyes.

SuperIlu

Berlin, Germany,
19.08.2022, 22:33

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

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Berlin, Germany,
24.08.2022, 20:47

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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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Berlin, Germany,
24.08.2022, 23:00

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I created and added the Emerald theme to the list.

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Berlin, Germany,
04.09.2022, 21:54

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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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bocke 06.10.2022, 23:48 @ rr	Collection of color themes for the FED editor Post reply
	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.

Berlin, Germany,
07.10.2022, 20:08

@ bocke

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> Thanx. These are great. :-)

Thanks for your feedback. :waving:

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

May I ask which one?

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bocke 23.10.2022, 00:19 @ rr	Collection of color themes for the FED editor Post reply
	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.

bocke 23.10.2022, 00:36 @ bocke	Collection of color themes for the FED editor Post reply
	Actually, this is the exact look:

Berlin, Germany,
23.10.2022, 10:31

@ bocke

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> Actually, this is the exact look:
>
> [image]

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

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dnm

26.04.2023, 01:58

@ rr

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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.

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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.