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We send syntax highlighted code all the time via email at my job. I hope you're not suggesting we should use PDF instead? And no, creating snippets on a wiki i
by lawn 7y ago
We send syntax highlighted code all the time via email at my job. I hope you're not suggesting we should use PDF instead?
And no, creating snippets on a wiki is also an extra unnecessary step. Email is just easier and faster.
- upofadown 7y agoSyntax highlighted code can hardly be considered a "reference document".
- bgdnyxbjx 7y agoFor the life of me I can’t remember the syntax for a particular thing I do in the JavaScript console at work. Someone showed me the trick in an email about seven years ago and about once a month I need to do this thing so I search my inbox for the email so I can remember the syntax.
- sterkekoffie 7y agoIt might be "easier and faster" to send an email than to, for instance, upload to a dedicated snippet manager, but literally everything after than that is slower and more difficult.
- adtac 7y agowhy not let people syntax highlight the way they want? some people dislike syntax highlighting, some like high contrast highlighting, some like blue-tinted highlighting, etc. why do you get to decide for everyone what colour strings should be? send the plaintext code snippet and they'll decide.