Change the color scheme of terminal

Question

I would like to change the color scheme of the terminal so that it would show different color fro functions, classes, variables etc like in textmate. How do i get to do this

Answer 1

Are you talking about an editor that does syntax highlighting? That is NOT a function of the Terminal, but rather a function of the editor.
I know that both vim and emacs will do syntax highlighting, but both of those editors require some learning (or a lot of learning), however, there are a lot of professional programmers that will not anywhere with out their favorite editor.
If you just want code that displays a source code file on the screen with syntax coloring, but NOT edit it, you could use a script such as the following:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Shell script to start Vim with less.vim.
# Read stdin if no arguments were given.
if test $# = 0; then
vim -c 'so $VIMRUNTIME/macros/less.vim' -
else
vim -c 'so $VIMRUNTIME/macros/less.vim' "$@"
fi
This will give you functionality similar to the 'less' command (a friend of the 'more' command), along with syntax coloring.