On Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 1:49:24 AM UTC-4, Paul wrote: >On Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 8:12:27 AM UTC-4, Erik Christiansen >wrote: >> ISTM very intuitive that compounding excessive layers of >> highlighting results in no net highlighting, after a point. >> Failure of efforts to lay it on thicker seems to confirm that. >> (Though a blinking cursor might be a last gasp in that direction. > > It depends on how you use highlighting. Without syntax > highlighting, I find that all code looks the same. With it, my > brain immediately teases apart different components of a complex > nested construct. I know immediately what to look for, where to > look for it, and what to ignore. But it may be a matter of > developing that cognitive habit.
Actually, the reason you might have cringed at syntax highlighting, especially if you just looked at it momentarily, is default colours. We all have our unique preferences, and my color scheme looks nothing like the (nowadays) default. But if you haven't missed the feature til now, more power to you. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
