acejacek, 1 month ago

@nixCraft vim 5.3 on my Amiga can’t handle syntax. Same with ThinkC on Macintosh Classic.

xDahl, 1 month ago

@nixCraft I’m the ultimate devil then, because I use a white theme, no syntax highlighting, and code on nano.
>:-)

It’s not that I don’t see the value in highlighting, but it’s often a distraction. The only highlighting I end up finding useful is that of multi line comments, and that’s a rare case for me.

remaster, 1 month ago

@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

expiredtoken, 1 month ago

@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)

amarok, 1 month ago

@nixCraft
Same with light mode! 😆
BTW that's the reason why I can't watch some video tutorials, in cases when the programmer uses a white editor background 😯

vintprox, 1 month ago

@amarok @nixCraft To be fair, video container used to upload on platform like YouTube may cause artifacts on a close range mix of dark and funny colors. I didn't test with greyer background, though. And artifacts can be mitigated by a proper text size upon recording, oh well...