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I write code with syntax highlighting turned off. Syntax highlighting has always given me the shits - it's noisy and distracting and I don't need it anyway.

The only time I :syntax on is if I get a parse error and can't find the culprit quickly, and it's probably a problem with string being constructed incorrectly (I mostly work with PHP so something like 'and that's that';). In that case having the syntax highlighter to tell me where the string interpolation goes awry is very useful, but I turn it off again once the problem is fixed :)



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