I'm surprised colors are so popular actually, they always tend to make my eyes hurt, with the exception of commented out sections. In fact, I have to disagree with just about everything said so far :) As a beginning programmer, I think it would have helped me to grok what the different pieces of syntax meant, especially in such a verbose language as Java, my first. Come to think of it, my lab partner used colors in Emacs and did better in the class than I, but then he was also a logician :^P

Nowadays I find that the most important factor in tackling a problem is to get as much of the contextual code on the screen as possible. To that end, on my screen you'll see plain black on white spread across at least two Emacs windows in the smallest possible font that my eyes can bear.

"The dead do not recognize context" -- Kai, Lexx

In reply to Re: Documenting code by djantzen
in thread Documenting code by traveler

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