On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 5:10:19 AM UTC-4, Erik Christiansen wrote: > Perception varies as much as do our brains. I am visually irritated > and distracted by a highlight on the xterm adjacent to the one I'm > working in. Colouring words just reduces their readability, I find, > and see no obvious reason to use it merely for confirming attributes > which a word already has without. Using it only as an alarm, as in > spellchecking, works well for me. > > It may be that coding in assembler for more than a decade (last > century) ingrained an eye for detail, and a mindset which connects > disparate dots with some facility. When you've had to remember > what's in which register right through a long routine, and infer the > braces, subsequently keeping rein on a bit of 'C' is no biggie. > > In short, colouring all 'C' keywords, merely because they are > keywords, strikes me as equivalent to this comment in usefulness:
I find that colorizing code creates landmarks, making it easy to orientate oneself in what would otherwise be a sea of characters. It can also let you know when you have unbalanced delimiters that come in pairs, especially quotes. > elephants++ ; // Increment elephants. > > (Incidentally, the example is not artificial. Such facile comments > have been produced by folk paid to program.) Gee. I can get paid for that? I'm in the wrong profession. > Folding, which you mentioned upthread, is something else. Through > hierarchical information hiding, it helps impart greater structure > to voluminous text, and I wouldn't be without it. (Even in .vimrc, > now. ;) > > Erik -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
