Syntax highlight never bothered me, and could even be helpful. But I can see where Pike is coming from.
What drives me nuts is autocomplete, because it pops things into my vision automagically while I'm trying to focus on the code, and even effects a mode change (some keys do different things when autocomplete is active).
Almost if not as bad, is when I'm working on someone else's code, and they misspelled a word when defining the class/method/function/variable, and now that misspelling is everywhere in the code because every other time they used the identifier they typed the first four characters max and then mashed TAB to autocomplete it!
> What drives me nuts is autocomplete, because it pops things into my vision automagically while I'm trying to focus on the code, and even effects a mode change (some keys do different things when autocomplete is active).
Totally agree! I disable "press Enter to accept suggestion" in JetBrains IDEs for this reason.
What drives me nuts is autocomplete, because it pops things into my vision automagically while I'm trying to focus on the code, and even effects a mode change (some keys do different things when autocomplete is active).
Almost if not as bad, is when I'm working on someone else's code, and they misspelled a word when defining the class/method/function/variable, and now that misspelling is everywhere in the code because every other time they used the identifier they typed the first four characters max and then mashed TAB to autocomplete it!