When my students print files on a black and white printer without turning off syntax coloring, the comments are really hard to read.
Maybe a slate gray or something? You want comments to be easily readable and easily ignorable--that's a hard sweet spot to hit. Todd On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > Anyone have opinions on DrRacket's yellow default color for comments? Is it > OK, great, lousy? > > If you want to email me directly, I will summarize responses. > > You could also mention if you use a background color other than white. > > (Reason for asking... I'm writing a new Emacs mode for Racket. I have > gotten the syntax-coloring very consistent with DrRacket, but I am > personally bothered by the comments' yellow snow color scheme -- perhaps > yellow snow with a liver condition. Probably, it just takes a while to get > used to, since I have personally been using green and then cyan for a long > time. So, I plan to have the Emacs mode's default comment color be > consistent with DrRacket, unless I hear huge opposition to the yellow.) > > -- > http://www.neilvandyke.org/ > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
