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Disclaimer: I am not responsible for what people (other than myself) write in the forums. Please report any abuse, such as insults, slander, spam and illegal material, and I will take appropriate actions. Don't feed the trolls.

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Mar 2024

A case against syntax highlighting

Anonymous
Sun 10-Mar-2024 18:34
I found this post while I was preparing a rant against the seemingly random colouring of the editor I was using.

I find syntax colouring exactly no use at all. I can just about accept that comments should contrast somehow, being more prominent or less prominent, but in my ideal world they would be entirely separate, as for example in a markdown cell in a Jupyter notebook.

If you must colour something, highlight the keywords in SQL. In twenty odd years I've had problems owing to keywords used as identifiers—oh, I don't know—several times. Big woop.

And one more thing. It is a rare editor that even does syntax highlighting. They all seem to colour tokens on the basis they match keywords. So see my previous paragraph.

Vim code

Anonymous
Tue 12-Mar-2024 16:00
This is extremly amazing, am a newbie into vim/nvim and i really like your work, thanks so much for the inspiration.

Brainfuck

Anonymous
Fri 15-Mar-2024 21:22
Thanks!

ClownC0re's “Computers” on computers

Anonymous
Sat 16-Mar-2024 21:49
The reinterpreted version from 2024 is disturbing, appropriate, and absolutely brilliant!