- Extremely subtle colours
- Syntax highlighting is distracting, but it does serve a purpose.
- Cryptic errors arise from unclosed comments and unterminated strings.
- Highlighting Keywords, types and builtins provides a mental note to self that you haven’t mistyped
- giving a different color/formatting style to links helps too.
- Comments are often useless when coding
- Doc-comments are slightly more usefu
- These stand out a little more than normal comments
Screenshot showing highlighting for C
- Emacs has several font-faces. You can see this using
- If you are on a particular word and wonder what highlighting it uses, use
- If you feel
eltbusis doing a bad job with it, add another entry for it and send me a PR. If it is subtle enough, I will pull