On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:09:03AM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Highlighting makes source code impossible to read to someone who > isn't used to it. I'm really perplexed about how people think that > having each line of source code in six different colors somehow > makes things clearer.
That's a pretty broad generalization, and pretty hard to defend - as others have pointed out, these things are all highly dependent on the person and the environment. Anyway, I did have something (small) to add to the thread: I sometimes like to do $ env TERM=vt220 emacs -nw somefile.c so that the highlighting is done only with bold type and background/foreground reversal. It makes things easier for me to pick out quickly, but it doesn't leave me feeling illiterate when I see code that isn't highlighted. Just my $0.02. -- Benjamin Collins [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
