On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:09:03AM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> My faith in the non-Improved vi is reinforced every time I see
> someone using vim with color syntax highlighting. Highlighting
> makes source code impossible to read to someone who isn't used
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> to it. I'm really perplexed about how people think that having
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> each line of source code in six different colors somehow makes
> things clearer.
You learned to read, didn't you ?
Some of us learned to use color to read things faster.
The only bad thing about syntax highlighting is when it breaks, e.g.,
no color-highlighter can deal correctly with syntax interspersed with
macros #ifdef'd.
