[BUG] Color in editor in Pycharm is wrong

[fundaluk]

Hello, why color in Pycharm is no set compare with Color Scheme, I use Default settings

Steps To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install Robot Code with default setting, no edit scheme, use default Darcula
2. Open .robot file
3. In *** Variables *** add variable -> variable havn't correct color ,,${}" should be blue

If paste value, for one seconds is display ok:

Sample code:

*** Variables ***
${PAGE_OBJECT} ${NONE}

Expected behavior
Color for variable should be display correct, the same in Visual studio, when I open the same project in Visual Studio code is display ok

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Pycharm 2026.2.3
• VS Code Version 1.139.1
• RobotCode Version 2.7.0
• OS: Windows 11
• Python Version 3.12.10
• RobotFramework Version 7.5

[d-biehl]

Thanks for the report and the screenshots!

We found the cause: RobotCode only brought its own colors for a few color schemes and otherwise used settings that most schemes leave without a color, so variables and keyword names appeared as plain text. The colors you saw for a moment came from the first highlighting pass, which was then replaced.

This is fixed and will be part of the next release, so please be patient for a few more days. With the new version, RobotCode takes its colors from your color scheme, and you can adjust them under Settings | Editor | Color Scheme | Robot Framework.

One detail is still open: after a moment, the braces of a variable (${ and }) still take the color of the variable name. We plan to fix this in a later version, so I'm leaving this issue open for now.