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Re:The impact of syntax colouring on program comprehension [... by SmellyGeekBoy on Thursday November 26, 2015 @06:55AM (#10632559)
I'm also in the light background, dark text camp, when it comes to code at least. I think Visual Studio (using the light rather than dark or blue themes) has the colours just about spot-on for me, especially in the 2015 editions where they seem to have softened the palette a bit.

That said, I'm completely the opposite when it comes to the command line. I think colour coding can add a lot (ls for example) but it has to be light-on-dark or not at all. Funny how that works.

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Re:The impact of syntax colouring on program comprehension [... by kazinator on Friday November 27, 2015 @12:56AM (#10636056)
How that probably works is that with this distinction, you know at a glance which windows on your desktop are editor windows with code and which are command lines (or possibly editors that have suspended to the background to go to a command line).

It's ... meta-syntactic-highlighting for your entire desktop! Different types of windows are colored differently, just like different kinds of identifiers in one window.

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