Fonts & Colors
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Fonts & Colors

This section of the dialog lets you configure all fonts and colors in any color scheme you have, as well creating new schemes or deleting existing ones. Each scheme has settings for colors, fonts and normal and highlight text styles.

KWrite will preselect the currently active scheme for you, if you want to work on a different scheme start by selecting that from the Schema combobox.

Colors

Text Area Background
Normal text

This is the default background for the editor area, it will be the dominant color on the editor area.

Selected Text

This is the background for selected text. The default is the global selection color, as set in your TDE color preferences.

Current Line

Set the color for the current line. Setting this a bit different from the Normal text background helps to keep focus on the current line.

Bookmark

This combo lets you set overlay colors for various mark types. The color is mixed into the background color of a marked line, so that a line with more marks or a marked line that is current has a background that is a mix of more colors. The mark colors are also used if you enable display of scrollbar marks.

Other Elements
Left Border Background

This color is used for the marks, line numbers and folding marker borders in the left side of the editor view when they are displayed.

Line Numbers

This color is used to draw the line numbers on the left side of the view when displayed.

Bracket Highlight

This color is used to draw the background of matching brackets.

Word Wrap Markers

This color is used to draw a pattern to the left of dynamically wrapped lines when those are aligned vertically, as well as for the static word wrap marker.

Tab Markers

This color is used to draw white space indicators when enabled.

Fonts

Here you can choose the font for the schema. You can choose from any font available on your system, and set a default size. A sample text displays at the bottom of the dialog, so you can see the effect of your choices.

Normal Text Styles

The normal text styles are inherited by the highlight text styles, allowing the editor to present text in a very consistent way, for example comment text is using the same style in allmost all of the text formats that kate can highlight.

The name in the list of styles is using the style configured for the item, providing you with an immediate preview when configuring a style.

Each style lets you select common attributes as well as foreground and background colors. To unset a background color, rightclick to use the context menu.

Highlighting Text Styles

Here you can edit the text styles used by a specific highlight definition. The editor preselects the highlight used by your current document. To work on a different highlight, select one in the Highlight combobox above the style list.

The name in the list of styles is using the style configured for the item, providing you with an immediate preview when configuring a style.

Each style lets you select common attributes as well as foreground and background colors. To unset a background color, rightclick to use the context menu. In addition you can see if a style is equal to the default style used for the item, and set it to that if not.

You will notice that many highlights contain other highlights represented by groups in the style list. For example most highlights import the Alert highlight, and many source code formats imports the Doxygen highlight. Editing colors in those groups only affects the styles when used in the edited highlight format.

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