How to change link link color in Search View in Eclipse CDT?

Question

I want to change the highlight color of links displayed in Eclipse Search View after CDT finds the link (right click on the code → Links → any). How can i do this?

Note: this is different from the standard matching backlight color .

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Answer 1

I found two simple solutions to this problem:

1) Create a new file and add the following lines:

file_export_version=3.0 /instance/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/org.eclipse.cdt.ui.ColoredLabels.match_highlight=128,0,128 

You can change the color value to suit your theme.

Then go to File → Import → Settings

Browse to the newly created file and click Finish.

2) Go to [workspace-location] /. metadata / .plugins / org.eclipse.core.runtime / .settings

Modify the org.eclipse.ui.workbench.prefs file and add the line

 org.eclipse.cdt.ui.ColoredLabels.match_highlight=128,0,128 

Answer 2

It seems that these colors are not editable and therefore hardcoded in such a way that (clearly!) Does not work well with a dark theme.

This is the important part from org.eclipse.cdt.ui / plugin.xml :

  <colorDefinition id="org.eclipse.cdt.ui.ColoredLabels.match_highlight" isEditable="false" label="%Dummy.label" value="206, 204, 247"> </colorDefinition> 

A small change in the plugin.xml file allows you to change the color:

  <colorDefinition categoryId="org.eclipse.cdt.ui.presentation" id="org.eclipse.cdt.ui.ColoredLabels.match_highlight" isEditable="true" label="Match Highlight" value="206, 204, 247"> </colorDefinition> 

And then you can edit the background color and fix your problem.

This is a known issue in the CDT ( bug 468206 ), contributions are welcome.