"Jarrett Billingsley" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Nick Sabalausky<[email protected]> wrote: >> Although, what some people have said about just coloring it in an editor >> is >> not a bad point (althogh it seems like we may be starting to run out of >> colors...). > > If your syntax highlighting is using so many colors that you're > worried about running out, then your syntax highlighting is using too > many colors ;) > > I never understood why some syntax highlighters make your code look > like a goddamned rainbow threw up on it. There are so many colors > that they stop meaning anything. Kate's default D highlighting scheme > comes to mind as a particularly heinous offender. Do we really need > different colors for 1, 0x1, 0b1, 01, and 1.0? They're all numbers. > How about different highlighting for *every kind of string literal*?
A different color for 01 would be nice until that abomination finally gets thrown out. But I do understand your point.
