Standard text editor ignores preferences for foreground color

[peterdell]

The following issue is present in Version: 2022-12 (4.26).
I have the dark theme active. When I create a plain text .txt file and put some there is is displayed in the light grey color configured in the preferences "General / Editors / Text Editors / Appearance and color options / Foreground color". But changing the color there has no effect. All the other color settings there (selection foreground and background, line numbers, .... ) work correctly. In this example I've set the foreground to purple:

[laeubi]

The following issue is present in Version: 2022-12 (4.26).

Have you tried 2023-03 already?

[peterdell]

Oh, sure, I should have verified there first. But I did now and yes, the issue is the same in https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.27-202303020300/download.php?dropFile=eclipse-platform-4.27-win32-x86_64.zip.

[mickaelistria]

I suspect the Theme engine incorrectly overrides the color here. Can you please try disable theming to verify the preference setting work?

[peterdell]

You are right, if theming is disabled, the preferences setting is used.

[DenisUngemach]

The color which overrides the preference is in the plugin org.eclipse.ui.themes in file e4-dark_partstyle.css the color: #AAAAAA line 59.
The override happens if the TextEditor gets focus.
With a breakpoint in StyledText in the method setForeground(Color color) it is possible to get the stack trace of the stylesheet override.

[DenisUngemach]

Bug already existed: Dark Theme: Custom editor background color not properly applied
Related to this might be: Move Color options from Text Editors to the Colors and Fonts preference page

Further discussion about setForeground/setBackground: #306

[BeckerWdf]

this was fixed by #1036