In message <mailman.741.1243325683.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <l...@geek....new_zealand> wrote: >> >> Why [do you want syntax highlighting]? > > It makes your screen look more busy as you type - for instance, if you > type a " or a ' then it treats the rest of the file from that point on as > belonging to the same string you are about to start typing, and colours it > all using the colour you have selected for displaying string literals. > This is basically to make you seasick and to force you to type the closing > quote immediately and then to back arrow to inside the string again to > finish typing the string, thereby making sure that firstly you type more > keystrokes, which will look good on your productivity summary, and > secondly to save the Python parser the hassle of dealing with a string > that has no end quote. Yeah, that's about what I figured. I think I first came across it 15 years ago in Metrowerks CodeWarrior. I tried it for a while, but it didn't really help with any of my program bugs, so I turned it off. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
