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Sometimes it can take a lot of work to come up with a decent color scheme (I find that a dark background with light text is easier on the eyes, so the default setting doesn't work well for me).

Saving different colour settings to a file, and being able to load others could be useful for people who need high contrast text, for some reason. If somene came up with decent color settings for someone who was, say, blue-green colour blind, they could share that file on the textpad site.

They would work much in the same way as the syntax files, but the colour and bgcolour for each item within the color setting, saved to the colour file.

The colour files would be independent of the syntax files, however, so that multiple syntaxes could use the same colour file, and any one syntax could load any colour file.

I currently add the colors as comments to my syntax files. This is in additon to comments I make about the colors for the syntax. I still need to make the color changes manually, but at least I know where they are. But I would suggest as an enhancement that colors be kept in a separate library from the syntax, so that different color schemes could still be used with the same syntax. I think there is already a poll here on this subject, no time to look for it right now.

The poll is here:

http://www.textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3779