How do change refactoring preview colors?
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How do I change the colors for the IntelliJ refactoring preview?
For example, when I select some text and then use the "Extract to Method" refactoring, it shows a preview of how the extracted method would look like within the text editor itself (no popup or so, directly in the text editor code). The changes are highlighted in a certain color that is hard to read (Dark Green background with Dark text foreground). How do I change these colors?
Example:
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Please go to Settings | Editor | Color Scheme | Diff & Merge | Changed lines | Inserted, and change the important color
Ah, I see. I actually don't have an issue with the background color ("Important value" → Green), but rather with the foreground text color (black). I noticed that the issue (foreground text color being black) appears because I have unchecked “Inherit ignored color” because the “Ignored” is set to black. I checked it, now it is easier to see the refactoring preview text.
But is there no way to have the “Ignored” color be only used for the diff ignore background instead of the preview text foreground? I set the “Ignored” color to black because I don't want additional highlighting of things that are not relevant when diffing, and also then I find the things that actually changed easier to spot:
Notice how it highlights the entire line and not only the words that changed, and how it is easier in the left image to spot the changed word.
But when disabled “Inherit ignored color” it makes the diff preview text harder to read, because the “Ignored" text color is applied to the foreground text in the preview refactoring:
These 2 seem to be completely different use cases, I think it's a lot better for people to be able to NOT make entire lines be highlighted (only the individual words should be highlighted), but when showing the preview refactoring it should not use the “Ignored” color for text foreground (because it is already used when diffing for the background of irrelevant parts, which is a completely different use case)
How can I make this happen?
Ah, thank you!