A Theme encapsulates all of the styling information skEdit uses to draw a text file. The easiest way to manage your themes is via the Colors pref pane. This section describes the file format used for Themes.
skEdit themes are normal OS X property list files, and are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/skHTML/Themes. They can be edited with the "Property List Editor" application that ships with Apple's Developer Tools or with a text editor. For fastest loading, themes should be stored as binary plists. You can convert an XML or textual plist to binary using the plutil
command-line application:
plutil -convert binary1 /path/to/file.plist
A theme plist is a dictionary with the following root-level keys. Colors are specified as a 4-part hexadecimal color, like: #rrggbbaa, where aa is used to specify the alpha.
A unique identifier for the theme. A reverse domain identifier is preferred. For example, themes that ship with skEdit have identifiers like org.skti.skEdit.themes.NAME.
A human-readable name for the theme.
A dictionary defining the general colors for files. It uses the following self-descriptive keys:
background
foreground
insertion-point
invisible
selection
An array of dictionaries specifying styles for style identifiers. Each dictionary can have the following keys:
Color drawn behind the text.
The text color.
The style identifier.