Nedit - White on Black AND syntax that doesnt dissappear?

[Scott Tringali]

Nat Hunter wrote:

> OK, got the "default open" white-on-black by making a .Xdefaults file 
> with the colors in it. Now with the white-on-black as default, when i 
> open a .py file or such, the syntax highlighting takes normal text and 
> still makes it black (thus making it entirely unreadable as the black 
> text on black BG just disappears).
> 
> Is there an area i should overwrite the python syntax highlighting so it 
> goes white, light grey etc? Or is there a setting that allows the syntax 
> highligting to "smartly" not blank out text?
> 
> Help? How are others dealing with this?

Customize the text colors to what you like: preferences > default 
settings > syntax highlights > text drawing styles.  It will take for 
all languages.

I find that the default colors are only suitable against a light 
background, so I changed all of them.

There's also "darkbg.styles" in http://www.nedit.org/ftp/contrib/misc/ 
but I've never tried it.