How do I change the color scheme for .txt files to always be the default scheme in Sublime 3

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I like to change around my default color scheme in my text editors. I love Sublime and use it for a lot of .txt documents. I don't like the default white-on-gray scheme that is uses though.

I saw other answers about how to change a specific background color based on the file type, but I haven't come across anything about making a specific file type use the default setting.

I would like any text file I open/create in sublime to use the same color scheme as what I currently have selected from the preferences menu.

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It will. Once you put "color_scheme": "Packages/MyScheme/MyScheme.tmTheme" in your user preferences, all newly-opened files should have the new scheme. - MattDMo
@MattDMo I have the following in my preferences: { "color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/Cobalt.tmTheme", "font_size": 10, "ignored_packages": [ "Vintage" ] } When I create a new file I get the desired scheme, but when I save the file as .txt (or open a .txt file) I get a different color scheme that I don't want to use. - BrianHVB

2 Answers

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Open a .txt file in Sublime, then select Preferences -> Settings-More -> Syntax Specific-User to open Packages/User/Plain text.sublime-settings. More than likely there is a line in there setting the color scheme to Monokai, which is Sublime's default. Just delete that line, save the file, and you should be all set.

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I too had issues with my text file color scheme in Sublime text. The scheme was centered dark-gray text on a light-gray background, very hard to read.

Look in the settings for any Markdown packages you have installed

Based on @BrianHVB's comment in the accepted answer about the Markdown package, I looked up the settings for the MD package I was using.

In my case, the settings had a list of file extensions for which the package would activate. The list included txt files. I opened the User settings file for the MD package, and overwrote the extensions setting. Once I reopened my txt the color scheme was back to normal.

I don't know why txt files had a gray background, while md files were fine. Perhaps that answer is elsewhere in the package settings, but I lost interest after I fixed my problem.

Markdown.sublime-settings - User

{
    "extensions":
    [
        "md",
        "mdown"
    ]
}

This is how I got to the User settings file for the package

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