> Just to register a contrary opinion: I *hate* syntax highlighting you can use it in surprising ways, if the implementation is good enough. when i used intellij with java i had the "syntax" highlighting set so that everything was simple black+white, but mutable state (i can't remember the exact details; perhaps it was just variables that were assigned, i am not sure what happened with attributes) was in bold. very neat - showed where the likely bugs were in the code - and nothing to do with what you'd normally consider syntax highlighting...
andrew (last time i looked, intellij's support for python was not very good. which is a pity, because it was an excellent ide - better than eclipse, imho). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
