DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 04:06:29AM +0100, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
[...]
> Also the default colours chosen by the developer usually work well for
> the them and their (and if you are lucky reviewers) terminal settings
> and are totally useless for a huge section of using audience (most of
> whom remain silent for various reasons). Take Git for example. I end
> up having to run:
> 
> git … | more
> 
> to get rid of the colours. The default colours might work for the Git
> developers but fail dismally for me. I cannot be bothered to get into
> the detail of how to change the Git colouring so I use more to get rid
> of it. 

	git config --global color.ui false

I sure hope this is also configurable with dmd, otherwise I may find
myself having one less reason to use it.


> I like having colours, for exactly the same reason colouring is good
> in source code editing, they can apply semantic (albeit often
> syntactic) coding, but all too often the colour choices are dreadful
> and too difficult to change. Hence all too often I have to:
[...]

I hate colors, for the reason you stated above: they usually clash with
my choice of terminal default color settings.  Also, I find colors a big
distraction to the eye when I'm trying to focus.  I don't even like
syntax highlighting for that reason. My take on it is that if I can't
parse the code with a glance, then either (1) my grasp of the language
is so poor I really shouldn't be coding in that language, or (2) the
code is so unreadably poorly-formatted it's time to fix the formatting
before proceeding any further.


T

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