Keywords and Storage.types have the same color in Dark theme for Go

[ramya-rao-a]

From @sullyme on January 3, 2018 20:5

These are the colors in X IDE:

This instead in my VSCode:

How can I format colors of my code better?

Eg: chan and int have the same color!

Copied from original issue: microsoft/vscode-go#1439

[ramya-rao-a]

From @smt923 on January 10, 2018 17:27

This isn't really an issue for this project, some vscode syntax themes have more or less color stuff, here is my vscode + vscode-go + the brilliant Dracula theme (plus I have ligatures in the font but that's unrelated)

You'll have to find another color theme that has more colors I think there's a vscode dark plus, or if you want one more like your old theme there's plenty of monokai (it looks like that one is based on monokai but I could be wrong) and monokai variant themes on the marketplace for vscode

For example, the 'Monokai' theme that I think is preinstalled looks like this:

just in case you don't know already, once you've installed a font you can go to file -> preferences -> color theme to change the theme

[ramya-rao-a]

From @sullyme on January 10, 2018 18:54

Thanks a lot. That screenshot (https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18464442/34537686-9caa0c4a-f0c9-11e7-91f7-08a72d5dfb5d.png) is from Visual Studio Code Dark+ theme which I love. Monokai is more grey... and Dracula I don't like it: too many lines.

Now I will go with Monokai. But I'm unhappy.

[ramya-rao-a]

Thanks @smt93 for chiming in!

@sullyme The issue is with how the Dark theme assigns colors for the different textmate scopes which is controlled in the core VS Code

[ramya-rao-a]

@aeschli

Sample code:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
	c := make(chan int)
	c <- 3987
	fmt.Print(<-c)
}

chan has the scope keyword and int has the scope storage.type. Same color gets assigned to both in the Dark theme.

[aeschli]

Unfortunately 'storage.type' is used by many grammars for keywords such as var, function (e.g. in JavaScript). But I can update some of specific scopes that go uses.