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A couple years ago I was toying with the idea of using an e-ink display instead of an active one. I wondered about the same thing, how is coding without syntax
by eequah9L 4y ago
A couple years ago I was toying with the idea of using an e-ink display instead of an active one. I wondered about the same thing, how is coding without syntax highlighting?
Not too bad it turns out. You still have bold, italic, underline and gray. You can do an inverse text, which is good for headers (e.g. magit sections). I guess with a GUI editor, you can do things like boxes around tokens etc. -- I'm in an emacs over ssh most of the time, so I haven't looked into that.
I actually ended up liking this and have been using it since then, on a LED display.
- dredmorbius 4y agoAs someone who'd adopted syntax highlighting somewhat grudgingly, it's something I do miss significantly whan it's gone. That said, working on an e-ink device and doing mostly lightweight scripting occasionally, it's not a showstopper, and greyscale highlighting (which I've not looked into yet) could well work out. I do remember when monochrome ANSI sequences were all I had on early serial terminals: regular, bold, underline, and reverse video. That's at least four gradations, and with a few greyscale shades, the palette should be usefully broad.
- outworlder 4y ago> greyscale highlighting (which I've not looked into yet) could well work out. It works nicely for books. Can't see why it wouldn't work for screens.
- dredmorbius 4y agoIt's mostly a matter of finding good presets to assign / a useful palette of syntax options and formatting. Otherwise, yes, quite.