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I prefer no syntax highlighting because I wear glasses, and the resulting chromatic aberration makes it difficult to read.

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My glasses are likely stronger than yours [1] and I've never had a problem with chromatic aberrations. Are you nearsighted, farsighted, or something else?

[1] (How strong? Well, the current frames I'm wearing aren't the frames I initially chose; they're the frames I chose out of the set of frames that have the earpieces connected far enough back to allow them to fold closed given the thickness of the lenses I wear. The fact nobody warned me about this when I picked out my first set of frames indicates it likely doesn't happen a whole lot.)

I doubt the dispersion is caused by any specific properties of my lenses but rather by how my preferred desk arrangement makes me often look off the lens' axes. I could get contacts, but since reading programs is the only time it bothers me, and I otherwise like the rainbows, I just tell all my programs to show normal monochromatic text.

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