How to change highlighted occurrences color in Eclipse's sidebar?

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When you have "Mark occurrences" enabled in Eclipse, placing the cursor on any type/variable/method/etc will highlight all occurrences in the text editor and place a faint bar in the right ruler to show you the location of other occurrences in the file.

Does anyone know where in the Preferences you can change what color is used to highlight the other occurrences in the side ruler? The color is way too faint for me with my current monitor/Windows Aero theme.

I tried to go into Preferences > General > Appearance > Color and Fonts change the color for "Color labels - match highlight" but this didn't seem to apply.

Here is a screenshot with what I am talking about:

Eclipse screenshot

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6 Answers

The color in the bar is the same as the color the text is highlighted with in the editor. It is set by going to

Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations

and changing the Occurrences and Write Occurrences colors.

user_137920

Right click on the marker and select the only menu item "preferences", this opens the preferences dialog: General/Editors/text Editor/Annotation.

  • The color of "occurances" is used for the matching items,

  • "write occurances" for item selected by you.

The updates do not apply immediatly after using the Apply button, only after closing with OK and eventually reselect.

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