dotsies VS indent-rainbow

OP here. The linked tweaks are straight from my config. I can try help work out why it doesn’t look the same for ya. Would need to see your elisp snippets. May be easier to discuss on GitHub. Maybe open an issue on https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies

You can also checkout https://xenodium.com and his profile: https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies/tree/main/emacs

UI customizations at https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies/blob/main/emacs/features/fe-mac.el and https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies/blob/main/emacs/features/fe-ui.el

For some of the details you are welcome to look at and pick from my Swift/Eglot config. I use it on a daily basis and it is generally functional. Although you notice I'm not distributing it as its own package: I don't really warrant it works anywhere but my machines. ;) I also have an assortment of helpers for Xcode documents. You should also look at u/xenodium's config and other repos; I know there are some interesting SwiftUI helpers in there.

Yep. This works too. I had a similar function https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies/commit/c939802f64e4d97800f350b5c88ce83e4da40bc1 but now delegating to atool instead.

The demo gif is one of the use cases. Being DWIM, there are a bunch more at https://xenodium.com/emacs-dwim-shell-command and code at https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies/blob/main/emacs/ar/dwim-shell-command.el

Went through a similar exercise some years ago and landed on a use-package solution https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies/tree/main/emacs (see init.el and early-init.el) broken down into related modules https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies/tree/main/emacs/features It’s one of many ways of doing it. Held up so far.

In short, it’s a frankenstenian hack of sorts I’ll likely regret at some point, but at the moment fairly maintenance-free. If I haven’t succeeded in dissuading a peek, the code is here

I have swiftlint and swift-format https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies/blob/main/emacs/features/fe-swift.el

The orange border could be a nice addition, but I'd like to remain compatible with simple ANSI terminal and just use the background color, with a color theme and a black-and-white theme like indent-rainbow while preserving syntax highlighting in the foreground.

Colors are surprisingly helpful!

Vim+Python might be more popular than Emacs+Lisp, so here's my rainbow mode plugin to help with Tabs: https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow

> Some people like it bold, some people like the color to be intensified instead when using `SGR 1` (which is responsible for making font intensified/bold).

Indeed, and the right solution is a config options, just as was done in Windows Terminal, since nobody is wrong: it's just a matter of preferences!

The right technical way of handling preferences is offering more choices to the users, with some sane default that will satisfy most users.

Personally, I love italics (I use vim and I want comments shown in italics, and I make an heavy use of bold+italics, cf https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow/blob/main/after/syn... ) but I would not want to force this option to people who don't want italics, for their own reasons that are none of my business (actually, if they reasons are good enough, it may cause me to change the default choices, but I would never remove the user freedom to make such choices in the first place)

IMHO that's the key difference between MacOS/iOS/Gnome/new school linux on one side (fewer freedoms) and Windows/KDE/old school Linux (more freedoms)