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Re:A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019) by rthomas6 on Sunday October 11, 2020 @09:14PM (#24750561)
Syntax highlighting is too important to me to use this.
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Re:A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019) by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:46AM (#24751736)
Decent color e-ink tech is finally here:

https://gizmodo.com/the-first-color-e-ink-devices-are-finall...

It's just a matter of time before a major brand (Amazon, Microsoft, etc.) decides to take a chance and use it to make a big multipurpose tablet.

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Re:A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019) by imhoguy on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:14AM (#24751584)
It is only color coding one may miss, although it is going to change with faster color eink panels. There is a still a lot of other ways to mark syntax: font, borders, underlines, cursive, grascale tones, background inversion.
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