Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes: > 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.
It's a bit like the colour-coding of electrical cables - distracting more than anything else! And don't start me on traffic lights... They nearly give me an epileptic fit each time. That's why I use ed. Ed is the standard text editor [1]. Ed is open source [2]. [1] http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg [2] http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
