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I don't buy that. Most programmers have learned that, in a diff, red = deletion and green = insertion. But I'm not sure that is "intuitive" as much as "learned

• rhizome 12y ago
  Red means "stop," green means "go," is also learned behavior.
  • ars 12y ago
    Yup. Especially because on a fruit it's exactly the opposite.
    • rhizome 12y ago
      I've never learned that.
• cheradenine01 12y ago
  In accounts, we often hilight negative numbers in red. It's one of the defaults in things like excel. So red text has come to mean '-'. '-' is also 'taken away', so I can see why it's logical to have it in red. As for green.. well - opposite.