Excellent! My tired eyes thank you...and my increasingly Linuxy little soul is chuckling happily to itself.

>Russ,
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>Ah another developer that has seen the light. *bg*
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>You have to first set the default color of the editor to have a black background color and then set all the other items to be some forecolor on the default backcolor.
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>Here's a dump of my reg settings that you could apply if you want:
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>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualFoxPro\8.0\Options]
>"TraceNormalColor"="RGB(0,0,0,255,255,255), Auto, Auto"
>"TraceExecutingColor"="RGB(255,255,0,0,0,0), NoAuto, Auto"
>"TraceCallstackColor"="RGB(0,0,0,212,208,200), Auto, Auto"
>"TraceBreakpointColor"="RGB(255,0,0,0,0,0), NoAuto, Auto"
>"TraceSelectedColor"="RGB(255,255,255,0,0,0), Auto, Auto"
>"WatchNormalColor"="RGB(0,0,0,255,255,255), Auto, Auto"
>"WatchSelectedColor"="RGB(255,255,255,0,0,0), Auto, Auto"
>"WatchChangedColor"="RGB(255,0,0,255,255,255), NoAuto, Auto"
>"LocalsNormalColor"="RGB(0,0,0,255,255,255), Auto, Auto"
>"LocalsSelectedColor"="RGB(255,255,255,0,0,0), Auto, Auto"
>"OutputNormalColor"="RGB(0,0,0,255,255,255), Auto, Auto"
>"OutputSelectedColor"="RGB(255,255,255,0,0,0), Auto, Auto"
>"CallstackNormalColor"="RGB(0,0,0,255,255,255), Auto, Auto"
>"CallstackSelectedColor"="RGB(255,255,255,0,0,0), Auto, Auto"
>"BookmarkColor"="RGB(0,255,255,0,0,0), NoAuto, Auto"
>"ShortcutColor"="RGB(0,0,255,0,0,0), NoAuto, Auto"
>"EditorCommentColor"="RGB(255,255,0,255,255,255), NoAuto, Auto"
>"EditorKeywordColor"="RGB(255,255,255,255,255,255), NoAuto, Auto"
>"EditorConstantColor"="RGB(0,255,255,255,255,255), NoAuto, Auto"
>"EditorNormalColor"="RGB(0,255,255,0,0,0), NoAuto, NoAuto"
>"EditorOperatorColor"="RGB(255,255,255,255,255,255), NoAuto, Auto"
>"EditorStringColor"="RGB(0,255,0,255,255,255), NoAuto, Auto"
>"EditorVariableColor"="RGB(0,255,255,255,255,255), NoAuto, Auto"
>

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>>I have become partial to an editor that allows me to put green text on a black background. Was hoping I could set up the VFP IDE to be the same, but the only way I have been able to figure out to do it is to set the windows colors, which mucks with many other things.
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>>Does any body know a trick whereby I can set just my code editing windows up this way?