User blog comment:Kirkburn/Syntax highlighting - helping you read and write code/@comment-452-20150410203600/@comment-452-20150410214843


 * "Actually, this has nothing to do with code highlighting."

It does not have "nothing" to do with it. While it is strictly true that the "highlighting" is not causing the bug, it is occurring due to the "code highlighting feature", because the "code highlighting feature" does more than just highlighting:
 * Line numbers
 * Buggy auto-completion
 * Custom search/replace function which isn't available until the page is fully loaded and you click in the edit area.


 * If you accidentally use browser search, then click edit box, press Ctrl+F, and then search anything.

There is no "accidentally" about it. I do not want to, and should not have to, click inside the edit box in order to search.

As soon as the page begins loading, I press Ctrl-F and type what I want to find. The "code highlighting feature" is preventing me from being able to do that, and breaking the default browser search functionality, therefore I would like to have the option of not using it.

edit: and to be perfectly clear, when I say I would like the option to turn "code highlighting" off, I also mean "the entire code highlighting feature, including line numbers, custom search, and everything else".