I did the same several weeks ago at work. I turned off syntax highlighting in XCode for doing objective-c coding. More specifically, I created a theme with all

I did the same several weeks ago at work. I turned off syntax highlighting in XCode for doing objective-c coding. More specifically, I created a theme with all the same color: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/68874506/Screenshots/xcodeterm.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/68874506/Screenshots/xcodeterm.png I'm used to coding in terminal screen sessions, and using an IDE is a bit too shiny for my liking so I created my own terminal for XCode :) Now when I look at my co-worker's color-coded ruby code in Sublime Text it looks like a bunch of unreadable rainbows. Colors are pretty, but since I turned them off I found that I haven't missed them. They turned out to be distracting, and I can't remember a situation where the colors helped me scan the code faster to help me find something. One color means I now treat all tokens equally.