More contrast between selected and unselected text

[rferreira]

If you select text, for example, using Option+Up you end up with something with very little contrast and hard to distinguish from the surrounding text. For example, the second <li> below has some selected text:

[arcticicestudio]

Hi @rferreira 👋, thanks for for your contribution 👍
This was also mentioned #37 (comment).
There is currently no support for opacity (alpha layer) so a reduced opacity for the background color of the active line is not a option.
I've planned to open a feature request in JetBrains ticket system to support the same feature like in VS Code: As soon as a selection has been made the background color of the currently active line gets disabled so the color of the selection is only visible. This would perfectly solve this problem of too similar colors.

In the meantime you can change the color of selections on your own by going to your Preferences → Editor → Color Scheme → General and switch to Editor → Selection background from the tree view. You can now click on the color HEX code of the Background checkbox on the right side and select a new color of your choice. Note that you might nee to adjust this color as soon as the Nord plugin gets updated, but I'm not 100% sure and it might be possible that the customizations are stored in the users preferences and will persist across plugin updates.

[rferreira]

Well thank you so much for such thorough response; overwriting it seems like a very reasonable workaround until jetbrains addresses your ticket. For now, I'll close this as a dup.

[arcticicestudio]

I've submitted IDEA-215064 that requests an implementation of the highlighting feature like in VS Code.

[arcticicestudio]

Reopened to keep track of the ticket status.

[IgorPerikov]

I solved this by setting blue in selection background to 120(increasing), now it's possible to see the selection for me