Descent 0.5.4 released

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Ary Borenszweig <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley escribió:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Saaa <empty at needmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Poseidon has 7 (custom) groups of keywords which have different colours.
>>> eg. import=orange, static=green, void=blue, this=purple
>>> To me it makes source much easier to navigate.
>>
>> Honestly I don't know how people can cope with that.. if you use 30
>> colors, don't they stop having meaning?  :|
>
> Yes, I think the code will look like a mess. But maybe he's talking about
> primitive types with one color, attributes with other, etc. But something
> like:
>
> public static void ... {
> }
>
> with three different colors would just call my attention too much and I
> won't be able to focus on the real code. :-P
>

The worst offender, by far, is the D highlighter for Kate.  It has 24
separate styles for various syntactico-semantic elements, all of which
have different colors by default.  It looks like a rainbow vomited.
It's just so distracting :P