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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Allow configuring the editor colors","articleBody":"While people can configure the colors of the console and make those changes relatively \"persistent\" via `AUTOEXEC.BAS` (not really, because the colors will be reset as soon as a `CLEAR` or `RUN` happens), the editor cannot be configured.\r\n\r\nWhite on black is problematic for some people, and I've never liked a bunch of unmodifiable constants that exist in the code. Thus the colors should be configurable.\r\n\r\nWe need a mechanism to define configuration variables and then use those throughout the interpreter to replace hardcoded constants. An obvious way to do this is to define special variables like `CONFIG_EDITOR_BG`, set those via `AUTOEXEC.BAS`, and change the machine logic to treat them as special so that `CLEAR` does not wipe them out. We'd also need a `CONFIG` command that dumps them all (or a more generic `VARS` that prints all variables for introspection). But I'm not yet sure if that's the best design choice...","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jmmv","@type":"Person","name":"jmmv"},"datePublished":"2022-06-08T12:27:32.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/181/endbasic/issues/181"}