Question

Okay, I ll bite.

I ve got really pleasant code/window colors set up in Xcode. Ordinarily, my selection color is very visible.

When I am doing a project search and iterating through the results, however, the results list stays in focus and the found text remains out of focus, using a different background color. This color is extremely hard to detect, especially when the text is embedded in a larger code block and the view is shifting around as it scrolls to the results.

Here s an example:

Left side is in focus (just normal selection), right side is out of focus (during project find)

Often it takes a few seconds to find where the heck the selected text is.

Unless I m just missing it, Xcode seems to offer no way to change this particular selection color. Interestingly, it also doesn t seem to follow the selection color from the Appearance panel.

Does anyone know a way to change this color or force it to be more visible, short of changing my entire color scheme around?

Answer 1

Use this Xcode plugin:

http://github.com/tjw/XcodeSelectionColorFix

Instructions for using it are here: http://github.com/tjw/XcodeSelectionColorFix/blob/master/README.markdown

Answer 2

You can manually edit the theme file, which might allow a different selection color. If I recall (not on my dev machine), personal themes are in
~/Library/Application Support/Xcode/(should be intuitive from here/can t remember)
You can edit them in Property List Editor, if I remember right. The Xcode preferences don t expose all of the options available in the theme file.

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