I am an OpenEdge (aka Progress) developer that loves clean code and good looking applications that are easy to use. My main pet project is the Progress DataDigger
To each its own of course, but for the life of me I cannot imagine why I would want to turn off syntax highlighting. If it helps you being more productive and understand code better, then please continue, but it's not for me.
With highlighting, I can easier understand the structure of sentences in the source. Keywords stand out and I can quickly scan the code for the parts I am interested in. If I suspect something is wrong in the definitions I scroll up until the color of the code tells me I am in the definition part of the source. If I make a typo, the words don't color so it tells me I made an error so I would not want to live without it. To me syntax highlighting is the best thing since sliced bread.
I am an OpenEdge (aka Progress) developer that loves clean code and good looking applications that are easy to use. My main pet project is the Progress DataDigger
To each its own of course, but for the life of me I cannot imagine why I would want to turn off syntax highlighting. If it helps you being more productive and understand code better, then please continue, but it's not for me.
With highlighting, I can easier understand the structure of sentences in the source. Keywords stand out and I can quickly scan the code for the parts I am interested in. If I suspect something is wrong in the definitions I scroll up until the color of the code tells me I am in the definition part of the source. If I make a typo, the words don't color so it tells me I made an error so I would not want to live without it. To me syntax highlighting is the best thing since sliced bread.
On second thought - and clicking through some of the linked posts - I must add that I am using a scheme with few colors: