I've been searching for about 40 minutes now and this is just so frustrating…
The standard search result background color in eclipse is freaking white and black. Everytime I search something I have to scan the screen for like 50 seconds before I find the spot where Eclipse has found something. I don't know which goon set it this way but he must be working with the goon who programmed the interface for configuring the colors… I can't find it.
Where do I change the background color of search results?
I feel ashamed to have to ask this here… but the things I've tried, like setting it in general>editors>text-editors>annotations didn't work.
Best Answer
In the Eclipse menu bar: Windows->Preferences->General->Editors->Text Editors->Annotations
Then scroll down to "Search Results" and set the highlighted text color.
This works for Eclipse Helios and Eclipse Juno. I haven't tested other versions.