On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 07:13:28PM +0000, Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 17:42:23 UTC, H. S. Teoh via > Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...] > >Vim supports syntax highlighting. > > > >But I don't use it either -- I find it distracts from clarity of > >thought. I use plain vanilla vim in a text-only terminal. [...] > I don't get this, then again I am using syntax highlighting editors > since MS-DOS IDEs supported it. [...]
It's just a personal preference. I find that overuse of colors produces a kaleidoscopic rainbow pattern on the screen which, while pretty, distracts from the essence of the code itself, which is what I'm focusing on. It's like a webpage with every other word italicized and/or bolded -- after a while, your brain just tunes it out and it becomes just meaningless (and distracting) noise. I much rather learn to parse the text (resp. code) accurately by eye and let it speak for itself. T -- Those who've learned LaTeX swear by it. Those who are learning LaTeX swear at it. -- Pete Bleackley