Autumna – A style for Aptana IDE

October 19, 2009

I spend 12 hours straight in Aptana (an Eclipse-based IDE for web development) some days. Aptana’s great… but it’s pretty vanilla-looking straight out of the box (which gets old).

This evening, a friend taunted me with Coda screenshots, and I decided enough is enough—it’s time to give code highlighting in Aptana a facelift. Well, here it is: a custom color scheme just for Aptana! I call it “Autumna.”

How it looks

HTML, JavaScript, and PHP all at once

CSS

PHP

Download & Install

  1. Download and extract autumna-1.1.zip.
  2. In Aptana, go to: Window > Preferences.
    • In the search box in the upper left of the dialog that comes up, type in “colors”. This’ll hide almost all the fields you’re not interested in.
    • For each language listed under Aptana > Editors, there will be a “Colors” node. When you click on each, you’ll see an “Import…” button that will allow you to install the color scheme for the language.

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The Commentary

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    Dude, that is beautiful. I love the warm tint of brown it has to it.

    What is the extension type for Aptana colour schemes? Is there a standard, or do all the editors have their own fancy pants version?


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    Unfortunately it’s like getting an American to speak Chinese.

    The theme’s not that compatible with other IDEs… Aptana’s got some weird *.col XML format for it.


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    Coda uses *.seestyle files… so weird.

    It’s still XML though so hmm…


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    This is T-A-S-T-Y! Nice man. Thanks!


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    having trouble getting the javascript and php to take. any thoughts? I have php installed and I started a js project, but when i open a js file it’s still white and nasty. worked like a charm for css and html.


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    Hmm, what version of Aptana are you using? Did Aptana seem to accept the *.col files for PHP and JS, or, were the settings pages for them missing?


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    Thank you mate, that is a beautiful theme to work with at night – Just what I was looking for!


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    Glad you like it!


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    Hi, I got an issue when I try to install the php or phpdoc theme, I can’t find an import button related to the color :).


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    B.t.w I am using Aptana 2.0.2, thank you.