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Neovim user reports syntax highlighting serves as decoration more than aid when writing prose
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A neovim user observes that syntax highlighting in the editor functions more as visual decoration than as a practical aid, and that writing prose with it active feels unsatisfying.
This is a single personal observation with no corroboration from other feeds and no article body to expand on it. It touches on a known tension between code-oriented editor features and prose workflows, but the material is too thin to draw broader conclusions about neovim, syntax highlighting, or prose tooling.
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A single user reports that syntax highlighting in neovim is more decorative than helpful for their workflow.
The user specifically notes that writing prose with syntax highlighting active feels unsatisfying.
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