Regarding syntax highlighting, I created my own Emacs theme a few years ago to have only a few constructs highlighted: * The name of a function being defined

Regarding syntax highlighting, I created my own Emacs theme a few years ago to have only a few constructs highlighted: * The name of a function being defined * Comments * String and character literals The result is very calm [1], but I can still rely on colors to know orient myself and know when I forgot to close a string literal. [1] https://vfoley.xyz/syntax-highlighting/purp3.png https://vfoley.xyz/syntax-highlighting/purp3.png