On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 16:42:46 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 04:24:47PM -0600, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 11:28:35 Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > > On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 12:11:14 UTC, Petar Kirov > > > > > > [ZombineDev] wrote: > > > > vim or SublimeText > > > > > > I want to get into vim. It has to be vim, can't be Neovim or gvim > > > or any other clone; I'm doing it for a Linux class. I'm on Arch > > > Linux (or Manjaro), so I have plenty available from the official > > > repos and plenty more from the user AUR repos. > > [...] > > > All I use is the D syntax file so that the syntax highlighting works > > correctly. I've never seen any need for anything else. > > [...] > > I use vim for D coding (well, all coding... and actually, I'm also > typing this in vim), and I don't even use a syntax file. D is not like > Java where you need an IDE to deal with the verbosity; it's actually > quite comfortable to write, and if formatted properly, easy to read > without needing any special highlighting. > > But that's just my personal preference. YMMV.
It's possible to read pretty much any language without syntax highlighting, but I find that it makes it faster when you have good syntax highlighting, and I see no reason not to take advantage of it. Regardless, everyone has different preferences, so it's good that we're not all restricted to using exactly the same editor and setup. - Jonathan M Davis