I started out writing code in Emacs, with highlighting turned on. I loved it and couldn't deal with an editor that didn't have highlighting. At some point, I st

I started out writing code in Emacs, with highlighting turned on. I loved it and couldn't deal with an editor that didn't have highlighting. At some point, I started using Acme a lot for working on Plan 9. I ended up doing a bunch of work on a variety of Unix boxes, and it was simpler to just use Vi without highlighting than to set it up everywhere. I got used to not having it, and realized I was pretty happy without it. Plus, it always seems that whether I have light-on-dark or dark-on-light terminals set up, one of the colors is so off that e.g. strings become essentially invisible (dark blue text on black background) and it's easier to just shut off highlighting than to fix the highlighting.