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[themes] Themes don't support background styling

See original GitHub issue

.tmTheme files allow specification of background colors which don’t seem to be supported, for example:

<dict>
  <key>name</key>
  <string>Separator</string>
  <key>scope</key>
  <string>meta.separator</string>
  <key>settings</key>
  <dict>
    <key>background</key>
    <string>#E0E0E0</string>
    <key>foreground</key>
    <string>#373B41</string>
  </dict>
</dict>

This is especially problematic for themes that attempt to invert background and use a similar foreground to the text view’s background color (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2158)

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Created 8 years ago
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aeschlicommented, Mar 4, 2016

We had it in, but turned it off as it conflicted badly with the other background decorations we have (selection, word highlighting). I’d say we accept this as limitation and tell to better use themes that don’t rely on background colors.

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Tyriarcommented, Mar 4, 2016

It’s such a handy feature of tmThemes though to draw attention to important things. it’s used frequently across themes for invalid and deprecated scopes.