   What couldn't you live without?
  Something popped into my mind the other day about what feature is the most indispensable to me when programming, and it was a toss up between syntax highlighting or a good debugger.What are your thoughts?   
  Intellisense.  Which is why it pisses me off so much when it only works half the time.  Hooray for VisualAssist!!!   ;  efficencythis is why i could never stand programming in a command line interface, when i get one error from a missspeled variable i want to as quicky as possible fix it and try again not have to enter a text editor, key down to the right spot, swich to edit mode, replace a letter, quit the editor and run it again,same for dealing with multiple files of a project,   ;  Documentation. I've coded without syntax highlighting and a debugger before. It's actually not too bad, but it isn't great either. But a lack of documentation is pure pain.   ;  [google]   ;  An operating system.Flipping switches is just way too much work.   ;  My eyes. I've once heared of blind programmers when following the OFD-accessibility issue. Programming blind must be *really* hard. Aside from that, Google.   ;Quote:Original post by SanderMy eyes. I've once heared of blind programmers when following the OFD-accessibility issue. Programming blind must be *really* hard. Aside from that, Google.Back in the day, when I sold computers (did that make me sound old?) I had to do a house call to teach a blind woman how to use her new PC.That wasn't terribly easy.(And on a completely off-topic note, I also was doing an on-site setup for a guys computer when the cops came in and arrested him.  It was a bit hard to keep working when your customer is being dragged out of the house.);  The only thing that will stop me from programming is not having syntax highlighting.   ;  Clicking on the error and having the source file automatically opened and scrolled to the right line.   