[deliberately responding out of order] > Your argument here sounds like it would be against having syntax highlighting No, but syntax highlighting is just som

[deliberately responding out of order] > Your argument here sounds like it would be against having syntax highlighting No, but syntax highlighting is just something that helps parsing a single page. I'm talking about "show documentation for function/var/whatever under cursor", "jump to definition", etc... > There are varying levels of understanding (or desires to understand something). I use Python a lot. For a lot of the language and libraries my understanding is superficial; dicts have key/values, lists are ordered and mutable. As I use it more I'll dig .... That "digging" is what I am talking about. Code is rarely read sequentially; it's reading docs for functions/classes/vars, jumping to definitions and finding call-sites. To do this, you need a very good understanding of the target language by the "viewer"-tool. Thus: You need an IDE for proper code reading. And probably still a good grasp on /usr/bin/find for those things your IDE cannot help you with.