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Custom Syntax Highlighting In Code::Blocks IDE
By gkeesh7, history, 9 years ago, In English

Greetings Everyone,

If you use Code::Blocks as your IDE and are a bit bored with the same plain vanilla codeblocks theme , Follow this installation guide to get the custom colourful new Themes :- link

Steps for installation Mentioned here :- link

Some of the themes

VIM

VIM

Sublime

Sublime

ModnokaiNightShift_v2

ModnokaiNightShift_v2

Bright Yellow

Bright Yellow

Note :-

1) If you tend to use dark themes , don't forget to change the cursor colour to white

To change cursor colour just goto Settings -> Editor -> Margins and Caret -> Caret -> Colour

2) Always backup your default.conf file before replacing it

3) My system has Code::Blocks Version 12.11 and Windows 8.1 don't know much about how to do it in Linux but I think it would probably be the same.

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9 years ago, # |
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Didn't get the download link and how to save default config?

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    9 years ago, # ^ |
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    you have to save the xml code given in the first link then save it as some new.conf file that would be your new config file, now the default config can be saved by using the CB Share Config and it would go by the filename default.conf select it as the source just transfer its contents into a blank backup.conf file now after doing that tranfer the contents of your new.conf to the default.conf file the steps are given in the second link. Make sure Code::Blocks isn't running. I didn't backup my default config it still worked fine. You can also save default config by copy pasting the file default.conf from the explorer as mentioned in the second link.

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Note 1.1)

Change cursor to gray, because *.txt files still have white background.

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8 years ago, # |
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My cursor color does not persist for long. Can you help?

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    8 years ago, # ^ |
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    Does it gets reverted back to the previous colour or does it blinks and reappears ? I turned off the blinking of my cursor by setting the blinking period to be 0.

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      8 years ago, # ^ |
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      Apparently, there is an issue with autosave for cpp files. Thanks for your help.

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How to change color of the cursor?

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    8 years ago, # ^ |
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    As it has been written at the end of the post Go to Settings -> Editor -> Margins and Caret -> Caret -> Colour and select the colour of your choice.

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Is there a way to get different color for "#include" and "iostream" ? in C::B, Just like Sublime text.

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    8 years ago, # ^ |
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    I don't think so — it seems Codeblocks colors everything after the # green (or whatever color is in the theme), regardless of what you write after it.

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Is there a way to make the tools bar, logs menu and the navigation bar also dark ?? I changed the the theme of the IDE but the surroundings are still white.

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