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Does syntax highlighting actually make a difference?

Syntax Highlighting makes your code look pretty, right? But is it just an aesthetic nicety, or does it have a more functional impact? And are there ways to improve it? Long ago, when I first learned ...
Network World

Create Your Own Syntax Highlighting in Vim

Vim has code syntax highlighting already available for a huge array of programming languages, and most of them are installed by default, so in most cases you can just open up your source code files ...
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Intelligent syntax highlighting with IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2

JetBrains has released version 2024.2 of IntelliJ IDEA, which comes with a new interface and many useful AI tools for developers. At its core is now the JBR21 runtime, which improves security and ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Java Devs in VS Code Can Now Ask Copilot for Syntax Rewrites

Count among the many emerging abilities of GitHub Copilot new functionality for rewriting your Java syntax in Visual Studio Code. The AI-powered code-completion tool, unveiled years ago as an "AI pair ...
Ars Technica

less with syntax highlighting

Is there a version of less that has vim's syntax highlighting? There are a lot of times I just want to read code, and using vim to do it is a little cumbersome. I've even pondered hacking the vim ...