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    Quote Originally Posted by AndrewHunter View Post
    The parser I made just called out "red" "green" and "blue". I was just looking into backhighlighting when we shifted to the auto color feature.

    Are you scripting your "rainbows" right now?
    That's a distinct possibility. It's what happens when I'm really bored.


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    Quote Originally Posted by quzah View Post
    That's a distinct possibility. It's what happens when I'm really bored.


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    Haha...sounds like a new game I will revisit next time I am "bored".
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    Now, please, for the love of all things good and holy, think about what you're doing! Don't just run around willy-nilly, coding like a drunk two-year-old....
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    ..... Just don't be surprised when I say you aren't using standard C anymore, and as such,are off in your own little universe that I will completely disregard.
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    I also like intellisense and it's red squiggly underlining. I've been trained for years in English to ignore this feature and it helps me focus on making a million mistakes yet getting work done and tackling them later.

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    I like syntax highlighting because it greatly reduces the "wall of text" effect of a piece of dense code. The particular details of which kinds of tokens get certain colors is less important than just breaking up the text somehow. Indentation is a visual cue which nobody competent has any argument with, allowing code to be interpreted "across the room" at least at a high level. I feel the same way about highlighting.

    The "real men suffer through it" argument just doesn't convince me at all. I find that the highlighting helps me navigate code, especially unfamiliar code, faster. I don't care how or why it helps, just that it does.
    Code:
    //try
    //{
    	if (a) do { f( b); } while(1);
    	else   do { f(!b); } while(1);
    //}

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