In the Netbeans 6.5 Tools → Options → Fonts and Colors → Syntax dialog box, you can change the appearance of the Netbeans text editor. When you select a language, you are given a preview of your font / color scheme. However, when I browse Java, there are far more options for syntactic changes than are displayed in this preview window. If I could see the more reliable part of the code, I could see the immediate effect of more parameters.
How can I provide a preliminary document for viewing font / color changes?
UPDATE:
Having studied this a little more, I was able to narrow the problem a bit. From what I can tell, everything in Netbeans is considered a plugin. The GUI editor is a plugin, and even the text editor is a plugin. This means that sometime the part of Netbeans that actually parses Java code and makes syntax flare is also a plugin (since Java is just one of the many languages that Netbeans highlights, it makes sense, it's a plugin).
I think that eternity is on the right track with his proposal. The tutorial on creating a manifest file editing plugin pointed me in the right direction. The tutorial eludes the file used as a sample document used to preview fonts / colors. He tells you how to create it inside this new plugin project. (Located in the "Registering Settings in the NetBeans System File System" section, Part 4. About 4/5 of the path down the page.)
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