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I have to admit, my first question in mind was how to disable colors because I do not use syntax highlighting at all.

by cygned 8y ago

vectorEQ 8y ago
but if you want to disable colours in this why not use hexdump or xxd :D . it's like the only feature it adds to standard hexdump tools
sifoobar 8y ago
Me neither. I did use it religiously for a long, long time; then tried without for a week and never went back. It's not like telling the difference between string literals and keywords was ever a major issue for me. I guess it could help short term when learning a new language, but I'm pretty sure it slows down overall progress.
- colordrops 8y ago
  How does it slow down progress?
  - dublo7 8y ago
    For me it doesn't. It's a quick way to see that I made a typo when a keyword doesn't turn the right color, or that I closed a strong with the wrong quote Mark.
  - sifoobar 8y ago
    I find it's a bit like navigating using GPS, once I get there I still have no clue because I was mostly acting on cues. Slow compiles have the same effect for me, I get pushed out of flow and into reactive mode. The only way to write good code is to be proactive, and any features that interfere with that process are worse than whatever "problems" they "solve".
userbinator 8y ago
I'm also not a fan of the colouring, especially in this application, because when you're looking at a hexdump chances are you don't care about ASCII or whitespace --- and it's not as if you couldn't tell whether something is in the ASCII range, given the character representation in the right column anyway. The border lines don't help much either and seem more like decoration; addresses to the left and an indexing header on the top, like the traditional "canonical" hexdump format, would be far more useful.
- philsnow 8y ago
  How can you tell the difference between an unprintable character and whatever encodes them (I've most often seen '.'), in a single character cell, without color?

I have to admit, my first question in mind was how to disable colors because I do not use syntax highlighting at all.

by cygned 8y ago

I have to admit, my first question in mind was how to disable colors because I do not use syntax highlighting at all.

but if you want to disable colours in this why not use hexdump or xxd :D . it's like the only feature it adds to standard hexdump tools

sifoobar 8y ago

Me neither. I did use it religiously for a long, long time; then tried without for a week and never went back. It's not like telling the difference between string literals and keywords was ever a major issue for me. I guess it could help short term when learning a new language, but I'm pretty sure it slows down overall progress.

colordrops 8y ago
How does it slow down progress?
- dublo7 8y ago
  For me it doesn't. It's a quick way to see that I made a typo when a keyword doesn't turn the right color, or that I closed a strong with the wrong quote Mark.
- sifoobar 8y ago
  I find it's a bit like navigating using GPS, once I get there I still have no clue because I was mostly acting on cues. Slow compiles have the same effect for me, I get pushed out of flow and into reactive mode. The only way to write good code is to be proactive, and any features that interfere with that process are worse than whatever "problems" they "solve".

userbinator 8y ago

I'm also not a fan of the colouring, especially in this application, because when you're looking at a hexdump chances are you don't care about ASCII or whitespace --- and it's not as if you couldn't tell whether something is in the ASCII range, given the character representation in the right column anyway. The border lines don't help much either and seem more like decoration; addresses to the left and an indexing header on the top, like the traditional "canonical" hexdump format, would be far more useful.

philsnow 8y ago
How can you tell the difference between an unprintable character and whatever encodes them (I've most often seen '.'), in a single character cell, without color?