Interesting. I've done a fair amount of coding without syntax highlighting, particularly on live web servers (gasp) without my vimrc.
What I find is that I don't really rely on syntax highlighting for find my way around the code or understanding it. I rely on it to tell me when I didn't properly close a string literal, or a comment, or fat-fingered a keyword. So, I generally enable it when I can, and find that it makes me more productive.
What I find is that I don't really rely on syntax highlighting for find my way around the code or understanding it. I rely on it to tell me when I didn't properly close a string literal, or a comment, or fat-fingered a keyword. So, I generally enable it when I can, and find that it makes me more productive.