Summary: No matter what settings you change, "Operators" in IronRuby are always green (hex 008080). I put a few hours into investigating this ( http://ironruby.codeplex.com/workitem/6117 ) and as far as I can tell, it''s a bug in visual studio. The language classifier used by IronRuby (DlrClassifier) is classifying operators using PredefinedClassificationTypeNames.Operator - this is apparently the correct thing to do, but when you do this, the text always comes out green and completely ignores the IDE fonts and colors settings. Tweaking the classifier to use anything other than PredefinedClassificationTypeNames.Operator works, and allows you to change the color in the IDE settings, but for some reason that I cannot figure out, using Operator always produces the same green. Commenting out all logic other than the core classification logic (brace matcher, etc) doesn''t affect this, and it is also reproducible using the microsoft Ook language sample from here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ookLanguage Given that I can''t seem to affect it, and it is reproducible in the ook integration, this leads me to believe that it''s visual studio itself? I tried to figure out what the C# language does (as you can change "operator" colors in C#), but I couldn''t find any classification stuff when running reflector over any of the standard visual studio libraries, so I can''t figure out what it''s doing differently to make "operator" work. At any rate, I have a small patch which switches the classifier from using "operator" to "script operator". With this patch you can change the colors for "script operator" in the IDE and have them affect operators in IronRuby code https://github.com/gglresearchanddevelopment/ironlanguages-main/commit/4d8554cf2329ce5dba74e1e2c37e7e1019b7d285 If anyone has more knowledge about VS integration and may be able to help with why the standard "operator" coloring is not working, I''d really appreciate it. If this is a bug in VS, do I need to file something somewhere? I''m not sure where to go with it. Thanks, Orion ########################################################################### This e-mail is confidential and may contain information subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient please advise us of our error by return e-mail then delete this e-mail and any attached files. You may not copy, disclose or use the contents in any way. The views expressed in this e-mail may not be those of Gallagher Group Ltd or subsidiary companies thereof. ########################################################################### -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/attachments/20110530/d9bf9337/attachment.html>