User blog comment:Kirkburn/Syntax highlighting - helping you read and write code/@comment-1618941-20150326204607

Syntax highlighting on wikis with a dark background is looking a bit over-the-top for me. The problem that I have with it is the background highlight can apply to some significantly sized blocks of text, which instead of leading the eye to different elements tends to 'paint' large areas instead. Heavily templated pages wind up with large blocks of mustard yellow, for example, and I've also noticed that much the same thing happens with the Tabber extension, eg. Brona Croft on Penny Dreadful, a somewhat distracting block of pink (same as the gallery highlight).

That being said, I can see potential in this, but would prefer to have it off by default myself. It leads me to think that for me it would be optimal to be able to toggle highlighting on in a purely as-needed basis once I'm already in the edit screen. I don't know how technically feasible that is though - call it a wish list item, if you will. ;)