In article <mailman.8714.1233686338.3487.python-l...@python.org>, <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: >Quoth a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz): >> In article <mpg.23f220f22aa48ce9989...@news.individual.de>, >> Thorsten Kampe <thors...@thorstenkampe.de> wrote: >>>* Aahz (2 Feb 2009 09:29:43 -0800) >>>> >>>> Polarized sunglasses don't work too well with LCD monitors >>> >>>Well, the answer to your issue with syntax highlighting is to use a >>>/decent/ highlighting colour scheme. Don't use that all >>>purple/red/green/yellow/blue one. That's for psychedelic trips. >>> >>>Use a decent colour scheme for adults and you will see that you will >>>benefit from syntax highlighting. >> >> Then I have the problem of copying around the syntax highlighting >> configuration to every computer I use. > >Well, _that's_ easy to fix. I have a little bash script called >'synchome' that uses rsync to update the home directory on any of the >remote machines on which I work. I've had to install rsync on one or >two of the boxes, but that's a useful thing to do anyway. > >(Granted, I still have a couple bugs to work out, where I haven't taken >the time to conditionalize things properly for some of the more exotic >machine configurations, but hey, if I spend more time on those machines >I'll get around to it...)
The need to conditionalize for different environments is the main reason I haven't bothered, combined with the need to spend time working out a decent color scheme I'm happy with. I've been working this way (plain vi) for more than twenty years and I don't see much point fixing what ain't b0rken. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list