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It would help if editors stopped treating comments as second-class content. Most atom themes, for example, render it as I would render unused code (if I were to commit such atrocities) – grey on (light|dark) grey.

I wish there were a functioning plugin to render markdown inline. I bet people would start caring about comments just because they looked better.

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One thing I've been doing for a few years now is minimizing syntax highlighting for code, and using some of the colors I save to have different kinds of comments with different colors: http://i.imgur.com/vU783Xo.png

Here's the initial idea that led to this: http://akkartik.name/post/2012-11-24-18-10-36-soc. As you can see, it was in turn spawned by.. a comment on HN :)

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