Thanks to everyone who added comments to this topic. It's been a week for people to think about things and make comments. (And a week for me to be completely consumed by my own tasks.)
The unscientific survey does lean toward adding color syntax highlighting. Therefore I have enabled it on the cgit interface for at least an experimental basis. It is active now. This uses the "highlight" utility. This identifies file types by file suffix. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/cat.c Let me say that I would prefer not to colorize just like the people who commented they preferred no color. Adding this is definitely not the most natural thing for me to be doing. But I think highlight does a pretty good job of enhancing the syntax without being overpowering. And very importantly in both dark and light themes. For all of us in the no-color camp I can point out that gitweb is still no-color and still available for us to use. Also my take of the people who voted this way is that we might all be people more comfortable working in our own sandbox where we have our own environments set up. The web interface perhaps being the shared commons for people not using their own sandbox. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/cat.c In any case let's take the highlighting out for a shake down cruise and see how it works for all of us. If you love it then please make a comment to that effect. If you hate it then also make a comment to that effect. This might be a good opportunity for someone to get involved with cgit and develop a nice way to allow users to choose color highlighting or not. I know I would use that control knob. Bob