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It occurs to me that the fewer lexical types a language has, the less possible it is to highlight it in a pleasant way. Lisps and Forths (and most assembly languages) must look unpleasantly spare; and an encoding like Urbit's Nock would be literally monochrome.
Unpleasantly spare? http://take.ms/k83XH
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Why is something limited in highlighting because it's a text editor and not an IDE? Highlighting is about text so it's quite a core feature of an editor.
Usually because the text editor is limited to regular expression and region matching, while the IDE parses the language into an AST so it knows what each bit actually means.
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It occurs to me that the fewer lexical types a language has, the less possible it is to highlight it in a pleasant way. Lisps and Forths (and most assembly languages) must look unpleasantly spare; and an encoding like Urbit's Nock would be literally monochrome.
Unpleasantly spare? http://take.ms/k83XH
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Usually because the text editor is limited to regular expression and region matching, while the IDE parses the language into an AST so it knows what each bit actually means.
Except a text editor can also generate the AST.
This is great.
I'm probably in the minority, but I've always found that anything other than constant-coloured text on a constant-coloured background with a high contrast to be more distracting than helpful. It appears I'm not the only one: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/
Personally I use a slightly tweaked version of http://vimcolors.com/1/jellybeans/dark … the id of 1 in the URL suggests the author might too.
I'm probably in the minority, but I've always found that anything other than constant-coloured text on a constant-coloured background with a high contrast to be more distracting than helpful. It appears I'm not the only one: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/
> nmap :if exists("syntax_on") \| syntax off \| else \| syntax enable \| endif \|
that makes F11 a toggle-highlighting button. Sometimes, highlighting helps spotting syntax errors.
Other than that, setting the "xterm*termName" X resource property to "xterm-256color" makes colors in vim much less distracting.
I wish I could choose a language to preview the schemes with. My biggest gripe with many of these themes is that is looks great in some languages and terrible for everything else.