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It never occurred to me to not like syntax highlighting but with a moment’s reflection, I’ll say that it’s especially helpful for other people’s code, and data.
by browningstreet 3y ago
It never occurred to me to not like syntax highlighting but with a moment’s reflection, I’ll say that it’s especially helpful for other people’s code, and data. And dumb things like HTML. And my shell prompt.
I even like color for my email indents.
I like colors.
- lysp 3y agoI'm similar. It allows me to skip over code and not thoroughly read it. ie. a colour for variables, methods, objects, strings, numbers. So I can see a bit of code and see it's {variable}.{MethodName}({string}, {number}) and can generalise what that code is doing without needing to read the entire line and parse it myself.