nixCraft ๐งDevelopers who don't use syntax highlighting in their code editors are clearly psychopaths. I mean, who willingly chooses chaos?
Peter Jakobs โต@nixCraft there ain't syntax highlighting with enough colors for the bracketing on Javascript!
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Same with light mode! ๐
BTW that's the reason why I can't watch some video tutorials, in cases when the programmer uses a white editor background ๐ฏ
Same with light mode! ๐
BTW that's the reason why I can't watch some video tutorials, in cases when the programmer uses a white editor background ๐ฏ
Vint Prox
Tobias Klausmann@nixCraft I used to work with a very gifted C programmer who insisted on coding in ... joe.
Peter Krefting
patricus@nixCraft I don't, I use error sounds because I'm blind lmfao
vifon@nixCraft I know one such dev fairly well. It made me realize how arbitrary the common syntax highlighting systems are. It's just a rainbow-colored soup that has little logic to it, apart from coloring comments and strings, and maybe keywords. Everything else is very arbitrary at its best and very inconsistent at its worst. Especially before the advent of LSP and tree-sitter.
tadzik
tadzik (@[email protected])
@nixCraft Many years ago (12, apparently), I met a guy who did just that. His argument was โI already know which syntax element is which, I donโt need no training wheels for thatโ.โHow dumb!โ I tho...
bazkie don't live here no more
KaiI wonder why nobody develop a syntax highlighting for English so people can use it on Kindle, Word processors, newspaper and books.
Level 19 Cyber@nixCraft Some of us learned back in the old days. We had no colours to highlight syntax because the whole world was monochrome until Sir Clive Sinclair invented the visible light spectrum in 1982
@nixCraft I disable all highlighting except for string and comments. I find the extra coloring extremely distracting.
(back then, I loved my black&white IBM PS/2 display, so silky)
(back then, I loved my black&white IBM PS/2 display, so silky)
@expiredtoken @nixCraft fellow former PS/2 connoisseur here ๐ did you also have the Model M keyboard to go with it? ๐คค
logout@nixCraft Proud psycho here!
Daniel Neuman@nixCraft I have actually started to dial back the highlighting using the Alabaster theme. The creator Nikita Prokopov explains it nicely here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1b7Da2DnPo&t=833s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1b7Da2DnPo&t=833s
Building My Own Clojure Tools - Nikita Prokopov (tonsky)
@nixCraft Still, I wish I had semantic highlighting, and not only syntax highlighting. Something that could colour variables differently, so that I can easily spot where I have used j as the array index instead of i would significantly reduce the risk of introducing new bugs.
SirWumpus ๐พ๐@nixCraft Or vi(1) and ed(1) users. How do you think syntax highlighting was implemented, plus you need a colour screen (beyond mono green or amber screens (or line printers)).
cc:@ed1conf
codehorse@nixCraft i still do this on purpose sometimes as it can help to focus and understand the code more comprehensively
nefelibata@nixCraft I'm probably a psychopath. j/k but it would be interesting to study the rationale behind different choices of colors in syntax highlighting and CLI in general.
ed(1) conference
DrScripttIf you want syntax highlighting in ed(1), you can pipe contents through a syntax-coloring tool like pygmentize
$ ed example.py
3141
10,20w !pygmentize -l python
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐Technomancer๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐@nixCraft , meh, syntax highlighting isn't very helpful for me. It's distracting more than helpful.
Michael W Lucas 
I have never experienced a syntax highlighter that worked correctly on my perl. I often spend more time tracking down why the highlighting is wrong than fixing actual bugs.
Of course, I write comically evil code, so 
@mwl to improve readability of your perl code, might I recommend setting all your syntax colors so the foreground and background colors are the same? 
$ edc() { tput AF 0 AB 0; ed "$@" ; tput me ; }
$ edc mwlcode.pl
rx13 
@nixCraft
That's why we code in `vi`
That's why we code in `vi`
pkprotoplasm (MOVED)@nixCraft Theyโre crazier than the people who use spaces for indentation!
Kirinn B.@nixCraft Some people just want to watch the source code burn.
@nixCraft Iโm the ultimate devil then, because I use a white theme, no syntax highlighting, and code on nano.
>:-)
Itโs not that I donโt see the value in highlighting, but itโs often a distraction. The only highlighting I end up finding useful is that of multi line comments, and thatโs a rare case for me.
uint8_t@nixCraft Unfortunately ed does not support syntax highlighting. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices :(
lerudd@nixCraft
the GOP does.
oh sorry. i'll run away now.
aceJacek@nixCraft vim 5.3 on my Amiga canโt handle syntax. Same with ThinkC on Macintosh Classic.