Good Editor? (What's the big deal with syntax colouring?)

[William Park]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:16:48PM -0800, Timothy Grant wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:10:59PM -0800, John Schmitt wrote:
> > Why do people want syntax colouring?  I can't stand it.
>
> It's pretty simple. Forget to close a ("|')--or open one for
> that matter, and you automatically know somethings wrong
> because the colours are wrong, misspell(sp?) a keyword and you
> know it because it doesn't hi-light in the correct colour.
>
> It is a huge benefit to getting syntax correct before you save
> your file.

Yeah, same here.  Colour is good for quick scan, but not for real work.
So, usually I type with colour off, and turn it on before I exit.

:wq --William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, Linux/Python, 8 CPUs.