On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 02:35:07PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/13/2013 1:58 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >Syntax highlighting hurts my eyes. I've been using vim in
> >black-on-white for more than a decade now. (Well, more accurately,
> >black on an almost fully saturated off-white, but that's irrelevant.)
>
> I tend to agree. I think syntax highlighting looks better if it's a
> subtle color change, not a glaring one. Unfortunately, in text mode,
> color palette is very limited.
Xterm has a 256-color mode that can be used for subtler highlighting, I
suppose. But still, syntax highlighting to me is merely something
peripheral, and I'm a minimalist. Besides, 256-color mode isn't always
supported when you're working over ssh.
Not to mention, syntax highlighting falls down upon encountering q{}
blocks. (It *can* be made to highlight those as well, I suppose, but it
leads to the awkward situation where you can't tell whether that's code
or a string literal.)
T
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