Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages

Re:Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages by AkshitGarg on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @05:21AM (#29328577)

While I don't fully disable syntax highlighting, I use a minimal theme [0,1] that only has highlighting for comments, strings and globals. It reduces eye strain for me, and I never find myself relying on highlighting to navigate through code.

LSPs provide an "outline" which can be very useful to navigate through code. I find "jump to symbol" function in my text editor to be faster than scanning all of the code to find the line.

Also most themes dim the comments, but IMO if something in the code needed an explanation, it should be brighter, not dimmer.

[0]: https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster

[1]: https://github.com/gargakshit/vscode-theme-alabaster-dark

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Re:Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages by llimllib on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @03:01PM (#29334440)

> Also most themes dim the comments, but IMO if something in the code needed an explanation, it should be brighter, not dimmer.

That makes me crazy! I use base2tone, which is not nearly as minimal as your theme but more than most, and I modify the comments to be bright.

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