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[kpedersen]

There's only one exception: Syntax errors that are detected by the highlighter are printed in bright red

I can never be bothered to set my editor up to do syntax processing this but I actually like this idea. All errors in bright red and the rest in black and white could actually be quite useful

 

[trev]

I find highlighting useful which is why I use emacs to add my own syntactical highlighting for things like Great Cow BASIC (for PIC and AVR microcontrollers):

Yes, that's twm

 

[drhowarddrfine]

Gross

 

[Datapanic]

if you don't like the color syntax highlighting in vi, just create ~/.vimrc and add this single line to it:

syntax off

 

[kpedersen]

And if you want all colors gone, then:

set t_Co=0