Developers who don't use syntax highlighting in their code editors are clearly psychopaths. I mean, who willingly chooses chaos?

@nixCraft

*coughs*

@ed1conf @nixCraft is the choice editor capability or editor?

@drscriptt @nixCraft

If 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

Command Line Interface — Pygments