[Info-vax] Notepad++ highlighting for DCL

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <qpenee$otu$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2019-10-31, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>> In article <qpd9pb$bpo$2 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>On 10/30/2019 3:17 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>> I don't see how colored text makes writing DCL easier than black on white or
>>>> the reverse.
>>>
>>>Having DCL verbs in one color, comments in another color,
>>>string constants in a third color, etc. do make code more readable.
>>
>> I refuse to read text that looks like I am eating a bowl of Fruit Loops.
>> It's hard on the eyes.  If text every color of the rainbow was that much
>> more readable, why wouldn't books, newspapers, magazines, instructions,
>> and eye charts be printed to look like Grateful Dead T-shirts?
>>
>
>Colour is used all over the place to enhance the display of information.
>
>Some examples off the top of my head:
>
>1) Have you ever done anything with 3270 displays ? The panels shown on
>3270 displays use colour to good effect on text based output to enhance
>the display of information.
>
>2) Do your rocket control/telemetry systems use colour to enhance the
>displays ? I know the UAV style model aircraft ground control systems do.

If there are multiple tracings on a single graph, I can see using different
colors.  My rockets record altitude and 3-axis accelerometer data which can
be displayed on a single X-Y graph to correlate the to two.  However, units
(in text) denoted along the axes are not Fruit-Loop colored.


>3) Maps are colour coded and use those colours to highlight information.
>
>4) Magazines/books/etc do use colour to enhance the display of information,
>especially in graphs and tables.

Graphs and tables and topographical information are not text.

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