[Novalug] Lack of love

American Dave novalug@soupy.org
Fri Oct 23 17:36:17 EDT 2009


On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:35:41PM -0400, The Doctor wrote:
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> ethan@757.org wrote:
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> > Color ls can die.
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> Colored ls output can be useful sometimes.

Agreed.  Like showing what's a hard link quickly in Fedora.

> Now, syntax highlighting in vim?  That's the second thing that gets
> turned off (after line numbering).  Unless my terminal is configured to
> look like a C=64.

Disagreed.  Syntax highlighting can help you find a missing curly brace
instantly.  Even more helpful is seeing what's interpolated, not
just in quotes, but in things like regex's. 
-A. Dave



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