Comment by mouse_

1 day ago

Rainbow parentheses blew my mind. Why isn't every editor already doing this?

Terrible idea for color-blind people. And I don't even mean severely color-blind, like when you can't distiguish red from green at all, but something more common and less severe, like deuteranomaly - where it's shades of these colors that are hard to distinguish.

  • The color blind would still see the parenthesis at least like they see them currently without the color coding though, given they are distinguishable from the background by lightness.

  • Those people are able to distinguish suggested colors - the example is using primary colors. And at worst, it would be the same as all parenthesis being the same color (black).

    • no, its not. first of all either I sense brightness differently, or I use it to compensate. so highlighting of any kind make the text a mix of brightnesses from dingy to glaring across the text.

      since it take me effort to actually parse the colors, this is a constant distraction.

      so I can read monochrome text just fine, but multi-colored text really slows me down.