I know the preferences are under Preferences>General>Appearance, I played with the color themes and colors of TextEditor, I ended up with some ugly color scheme on top of the default white background (See attached). I tried to reset back to defaults, but nothing seems to get me back to the original default look. Attached is the ugly colors I am stuck with.
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user1529412
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1This is EditBox (managing background colors) and is not covered by Eclipse FAQ – Paul Verest Oct 10 '14 at 06:04
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I think you installed Editbox plugin. Un-install this plug-in and manage colours with eclipse themes. Or try setting/preferences provided by Editbox plug-in itself. Refer this.
I think Editbox settings overrides the preferences in Preferences>General>Appearance
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You also can quickly enable/disable with such icon on Eclipse main toolbar.
Select more themes from EditBox, read at https://github.com/Nodeclipse/EditBox
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Chandrayya G K
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This answered my question. I did not remove the plugin, it was a matter of toggling the EditBox On/Off to get or not get the highlight on code blocks. I wasn't aware What Editbox did. – user1529412 Oct 15 '14 at 18:34
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You can get pre-defined color schemes in http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/
Download one you like and get started.
To reset your window perspective, you may go to:
Window Menu -> Reset Perspective

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I already had the themes downloaded, but the existing colors in the image seem to sit on top of whatever theme I pick. So, I figured it had to the the text edtiro, I tried resetting them to default, white...none seems to work. Resetting Perespective seem to keep the colors, just regains the settings and layouts but not colors. – user1529412 Sep 25 '14 at 18:57
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