I use eclipse for coding and emacs for editing. I think that more relevant
information is conveyed by selectively emphasizing parts of the code in bold
than done by just pretty coloring. Pretty coloring+selected emphasis would be
perfect. However, selected emphasis with no coloring is more useful than
coloring but no selected emphasis.
Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:
Ceki Gulcu skrev:
Hello Thorbjoern,
I am in favor of "code prettifiers" as long as they allow us to
emphasize, e.g. present in bold, selected parts of the code, but if
not, then I prefer ugly. :-)
I have tried to find a blog entry again who talked about that most
programmers these days use a colouring editor, and that for the book he
wrote, he spent a LONG time with the printer (or was it editor) to have
the program samples printed with colour similar to what you see
on-screen so you would get all the subtle hints that makes it easier to
read and comprehend.
Unfortunately I cannot find it for now :((
What editor do you use? If you use Emacs or vi in a vt100 that might
explain it :)
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