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To be fair, I've started to feel the same way about syntax highlighting in code. I've slowly moved to only highlighting 2 things: String literals and comments.
by ori_b 11y ago
To be fair, I've started to feel the same way about syntax highlighting in code. I've slowly moved to only highlighting 2 things: String literals and comments.
- gkya 11y agoI'm nowadays using a theme in Emacs where everything is black on white and keywords and comments are bold, whereas code regular. I'm happier with this than syntax colouring nowadays. I've also removed some colour from Org, namely headlines are bold and black. Again, I guess the less the colours the better here. I use colours with parens, they're pale by default, then highlighted with highlight-parenthesis mode, denoting nesting via tones of red. I'm even doing some html-css-js-m4 work for a relatives business website nowadays, and I did not miss highlighting even with such complex mess, instead, I'm happier.
- marssaxman 11y agoI like to have language keywords accented too, since that helps me scan the shape of the code without having to read it closely, but yes - most of the benefit is just in knowing what context you should read the characters in.
- Mikhail_Edoshin 11y agoSame here. I do not highlight anything though: just white text on black background.