Try as I might, I just can't find the place to edit the color of ColdFusion variables within Eclipse. I absolutely hate writing against a white background, as it wears out my eyes, and so I'm trying to migrate to a customized IDE that will be easier to read and easy to debug syntactically. Here's some example code.
As you can see in the top row, the variable names are still black.
Well - I used to use CFeclipse, check in Project | Properties
this is a Charlie Arhart blog with links to legit cf developers specifically using CFEclipse.
The list of CFEclipse category feeds in this post:
http://carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2007/7/10/come_read_70_CFEclipse_bloggers
this is the guy who wrote most of it - his blog on CFEclipse, Mark Drew http://www.markdrew.co.uk/blog/archives.cfm/category/cfeclipse
This guy has a useful lists of shortcuts for CFEclipse - some of them formatting, like [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[Z] - color picker... http://blog.pengoworks.com/index.cfm/2008/7/10/Important-shortcuts-for-Eclipse-and-CFEclipse
Finally, a user group to ask the question if you don't get good answer here http://groups.google.com/group/cfeclipse-users/browse_thread/thread/6d704824f593a0c9#