Highlighting program variables instead of keywords?

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/26/2014 8:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:31:49 -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
>> My son sent me a link to an essay about highlighting program data
>> instead of keywords:
>>
>> https://medium.com/p/3a6db2743a1e/
>>
>> I think this might have value, especially if to could bounce back and
>> forth between both schemes.
>
> Hmmm, I'm not convinced, but then I wasn't convinced by syntax
> highlighting either until I had used it for a while. (I still think it's
> a nice-to-have rather than a must-have.)

When my fingers get a bit fumbly, I find it more useful. When I do not 
hit ' or " solidly, or  type a mismatch 'something", having the string 
literal color continue is a handy clue. So is 'it' not getting the 
keyword color that if would.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy