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

Nathaniel Gray n8gray at caltech.edu.is.my.e-mail.address
Fri Mar 23 00:15:02 EST 2001


Emile van Sebille wrote:

> No!  Black on pale yellow.  Routines not exceed one screen's worth.
> 
> Now-if-I-could-only-read-5-point-type-on-my-21"-monitor-ly y'rs
> 

My coworkers cringe when they see me coding.

White on dark olive-green, baby!  Comments, of course, are in italicized 
teal.

I think the reason I find it so appealing is that looks like the color of 
white chalk on a blackboard.  Very readable and low-strain.

-n8

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     Computation and Neural Systems
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