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Do what I do: Black text on white background (or the reverse, if you’re a philistine.) Select a color for comments. Select a color for strings. Done. Anyth
by brandonmenc 5y ago
Do what I do:
Black text on white background (or the reverse, if you’re a philistine.)
Select a color for comments.
Select a color for strings.
Done.
Anything more, and the display looks like someone threw a bag of Skittles at the screen.
- augustk 5y agoI agree. One addition to this is that I configure my themes so that heading-like constructs are displayed in bold; in C that would be function names in function declarations (and definitions), and in HTML say, it would be the content of <h1> to <h6> elements. The motivation for this is the same as for highlighting headings in ordinary prose; it makes it easier to get an overview of where you are in the text.
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- wruza 5y agoWith all respect, you forgot about keywords. Don’t you like it when classes, functions, ifs and fors do stand out? But yeah, modern semantic coloring (args/members/vars/globals/upvalues/…) looks like a catastrophic oil spill.
- brandonmenc 5y agoLike another commenter in this thread, I like to highlight the function name in function definitions. That's about it though. I don't like language keywords (if, for, def, etc) highlighted.