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by James Gosling.
Original Post: Syntax coloring is Evil
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Feed Description: I've been inescapably tagged as "the Java guy", despite the fact that I havn't worked in the Java product organization for a couple of years (I do still kibbitz). These days I work at Sun's research lab about two thirds of the time, and do customer visits and talks the other third. For more detail...
I was just configuring an Apache server on a freshly purchased and installed version of RedHat9. I fired up vi (one of my favorite editors) to edit httpd.conf and what came up was an incomprehensible riot of color. Red9 comes preconfigured with vim as the replacement for vi, and along with...