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A few years ago I switched my color theme to something very simple, just as an experiment. Somehow I never found a need to change that. I highlight comments, k
by Derbasti 5y ago
A few years ago I switched my color theme to something very simple, just as an experiment.
Somehow I never found a need to change that. I highlight comments, keywords, and strings. Comment and string highlights are helpful if they contain code-like text, to make them obviously not-code. Keywords give some structure to the text.
Everything else is frivolous to me. Books do not highlight verbs in green, either.
- xyzzy_plugh 5y ago> Books do not highlight verbs in green, either. While I will not argue with your general point -- I also don't really need highlighting and I read a lot of plaintext code -- I wonder about this. Would this make languages easier for non-native speakers? Would improve comprehension? It's funny that the industry spends so much time on syntax highlighting for programming languages, when humanity's written languages are arguably more complex and difficult to parse and master.
- Derbasti 5y agoI think the point is that books do highlight things: Headlines, italics, Capitalization. Just not silly technicalities like parts of speech.
- unhammer 5y ago> Would this make languages easier for non-native speakers? Would improve comprehension? When I've been trying to learn languages, I can typically part-of-speech tag unknown words quite easily (common prefixes/suffixes/word length/sentence position give lots of information – and some of this is shared across languages as well). The comprehension difficulty is nearly always due to content words I haven't seen before (or have forgotten).