User blog comment:Kirkburn/Syntax highlighting - helping you read and write code/@comment-1038387-20150326195108/@comment-5288784-20150327131154

I'm perfectly alright with typing [[ highlighting everything after it until you close it. Links in general should be closed as soon as possible. If you intend to type something "big" in the link, then either close it first and then type it or type the text first and then add the link.

By the way, background highlighting is fine for basic wikitext, but maybe certain "keywords" that do actual stuff (and are more than a block of text) could be colored? For example template names, names of template parameters, magic words, etc.