From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 27 13:07:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03262 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:07:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from citycom.com (mail.citycom.com [207.171.207.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03257 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:07:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nordwick@xcf.berkeley.edu) Received: from default (152.172.30.252) by citycom.com with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2.1b1); Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:06:20 -0800 Message-ID: <009901be31dd$a5be5400$fc1eac98@default> From: "Jason Nordwick" To: "K. Marsh" , "q's" Subject: Re: environment for programming- Context Colored Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 14:12:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Do salty programmers use this feature, or veiw it as "training wheels" >for beginning programers? > I have been doing non-trivial programming for about 4 years now, but not anywhere near expert, guru level and it is not that I like the syntax coloring, but that it breaks up the monotony of the screen (okay, so comment hilighting really helps when scanning a file), but I have a feeling that if you just colored random workds on the screen random colors, I probably wouldn't notice the difference. >Do vi, emacs, others have similar features? > All do. > Kenneth J. Marsh University of Washington > durang@u.washington.edu Chemical Engineering > -jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message