On Mon, 2019-12-23 at 08:09 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: […] > > No idea, I use vanilla vim (not even with syntax highlighting -- I'm > a > hardcore retro guy).
Surely a hardcore retro guy would be using vi not vim? Indeed wouldn't a real hardcore retro guy be using ed? :-) I used to be anti syntax highlighting in editors, but it was because the highlighting was usually crap or worse wrong. Once I started using syntax highlighting where the highlighting was correct with respect to the language definition, I found it indispensable. Of course the real problem is that we store text of code rather than AST of the code, but that war got lost in the 1980s when syntax oriented editors were rejected in favour of text editors. Now editors and IDE spend all their CPU cycles reconstructing and maintaining the AST of the code from the text representation. It's a mad, mad, mad world. -- Russel. =========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
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