User blog comment:Ducksoup/Visual Editor Gets an Update/@comment-13918697-20150329000235/@comment-5288784-20150331092244

Well, perhaps they should be a little more vocal about that, but there is barely any harm done. It still wouldn't save you from having to change your preferences manually. The response generally is also mostly positive so far and syntax highlighting is the standard in any professional code editor, so it's quite obvious it would become default setting anyway.

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