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by dredmorbius 1497 days ago
As someone who'd adopted syntax highlighting somewhat grudgingly, it's something I do miss significantly whan it's gone.

That said, working on an e-ink device and doing mostly lightweight scripting occasionally, it's not a showstopper, and greyscale highlighting (which I've not looked into yet) could well work out.

I do remember when monochrome ANSI sequences were all I had on early serial terminals: regular, bold, underline, and reverse video. That's at least four gradations, and with a few greyscale shades, the palette should be usefully broad.

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> greyscale highlighting (which I've not looked into yet) could well work out.

It works nicely for books. Can't see why it wouldn't work for screens.

It's mostly a matter of finding good presets to assign / a useful palette of syntax options and formatting.

Otherwise, yes, quite.