Re: [PATCH] syntax: html: remove the special highlighting of the b, i, and u elements

On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 4:16 AM Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Syntax coloring is largely a matter of taste.

This patch isn't about a matter of taste, such as choice of color.
It's about what should/shouldn't be colored. Elements in general are a
distinct part of the HTML syntax, so it's uncontroversial that they
should be colored. The same thing can't be said for <b>, <i>, and <u>.
No justification for their special coloring was given in the original
commit [1] or in this thread. I've justified this patch, and no
criticism of my justification was given in this thread.

Here's what the elements represent:
  https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-b-element
  https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-i-element
  https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-u-element

I hope it's now clear that they don't form a set that justifies
special coloring.

[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/commit/syntax/html.nanorc?id=124a859516c7299191a77c00187e7770c31571a1