On 07/02/2014 04:39 PM, FRIGN wrote: > > What I noticed is that the code I write without syntax-highlighting is > easier to read if you look at it with syntax highlighting than > comparable code written with SH and then looked at without. >
Depends on the language, I guess. I do a lot of stuff in Forth (robotics is a hobby of mine) and I'm not even sure what "syntax highlighting" would be in that case -- I guess parsing words could be one color and non-parsing words another? I like it in verilog, though. In LISP I'm kind of indifferent; it's much more important that an editor can balance sexps than anything else. One thing I do like in any language is having comments displayed in a distinct color. I find that very useful. Also string literals. I guess I prefer a "scanner highlighting" to "parser highlighting", if that's a meaningful distinction. Weldon
