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Syntax highlights were probably the first thing I disabled in vim, though they kept adding features—"that's nice, but how does one turn it off?"—so I'm on vi no

Syntax highlights were probably the first thing I disabled in vim, though they kept adding features—"that's nice, but how does one turn it off?"—so I'm on vi now. Hella distracting to have bloatware spam you like a pachinko parlor, but some folks will want that whole three ring circus cruise ship with the bearded lady tour, I guess. Color support got itself compiled out of the terminal, to avoid the results of git randomly squeezing the backside of a unicorn. Unix here is the IDE, which is fine, as I'm mostly not a programmer (why programmers keep launching flaming turds into production despite all the increasingly fancy tools is a somewhat entertaining question) and 35,000 lines of code is about the largest thing I deal with (vi, or a custom branch thereof). Plus some tools that I wrote that do exactly what I want them to. Multiple cores pegged because some AI nonesense is busy shoving crayons up its nose? No, thank you!

bionsystem 2y ago
> why programmers keep launching flaming turds into production despite all the increasingly fancy tools is a somewhat entertaining question haha I love the tone and I feel you, the state of software (and computing in general) keeps surprising me (in a bad way) as years go by. It feels like it's only getting worse. We can talk about their salaries too !
wiseowise 2y ago
> as I'm mostly not a programmer What’s your type of job?
BrouteMinou 2y ago
Thank you sharing your invaluable knowledge with such a precise and accurate language. It demonstrates clearly your deep understanding of the subject.
freedomben 2y ago
I don't know if you are trolling or not, but if not, you are an interesting person (In a good way) :-) I too prefer a much more minimal approach to my text editor. Then what most IDEs provide, but syntax highlighting is luxurious and a must-have for me. In general, I really love colors, especially the simple colors of the terminal. Color can be distracting of course, but it is a phenomenal way to quickly differentiate between related and unrelated parts of the code.
xyproto 2y ago
You probably do this already, but setting NO_COLOR=1 to disable colors and syntax highlighting is supported by an increasingly wide range of applications.

bionsystem 2y ago

> why programmers keep launching flaming turds into production despite all the increasingly fancy tools is a somewhat entertaining question haha I love the tone and I feel you, the state of software (and computing in general) keeps surprising me (in a bad way) as years go by. It feels like it's only getting worse. We can talk about their salaries too !

wiseowise 2y ago

> as I'm mostly not a programmer What’s your type of job?

BrouteMinou 2y ago

Thank you sharing your invaluable knowledge with such a precise and accurate language. It demonstrates clearly your deep understanding of the subject.

freedomben 2y ago

I don't know if you are trolling or not, but if not, you are an interesting person (In a good way) :-) I too prefer a much more minimal approach to my text editor. Then what most IDEs provide, but syntax highlighting is luxurious and a must-have for me. In general, I really love colors, especially the simple colors of the terminal. Color can be distracting of course, but it is a phenomenal way to quickly differentiate between related and unrelated parts of the code.

xyproto 2y ago

You probably do this already, but setting NO_COLOR=1 to disable colors and syntax highlighting is supported by an increasingly wide range of applications.