I used http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/ to customize syntax coloring in Eclipse. My standard palette is dark in the light, but the selected text is inverted (light dark). The problem is that Eclipse uses my background color of the selection, but retains the usual foreground color, so I end up with unreadable dark-on-dark.
This is usually code, so my foreground colors come from syntactic colors, but I tried this in a text file that uses primary colors in the main menu> Editors> Text Editors. Plain text is “Foreground Color” to “Background Color”, and selected text - “Foreground Color” to “Highlight Background Color” - it seems to completely ignore “Foreground Highlight Color”.
This is Eclipse Indigo on OS X. I recently replaced the hardware and went through a long and iterative process of recovering my Eclipse environment, but I could have sworn it worked fine (on Helios).
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