paren-face
A face dedicated to lisp parentheses (by tarsius)
emacs-noob
A curated emacs set up intended to decrease the learning curve (by digikar99)
paren-face | emacs-noob | |
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8 | 8 | |
155 | 17 | |
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4.4 | 0.0 | |
26 days ago | over 2 years ago | |
Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
paren-face
Posts with mentions or reviews of paren-face.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-03.
- paren-face: A face dedicated to lisp parentheses
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Script for merging fonts to create lighter ()[]{} brackets
Alternative using Emacs: https://github.com/tarsius/paren-face
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prism.el: New feature: colorize parens distinctly (e.g. fade into background)
In the spirit of u/tarsius_'s paren-face, I just pushed a new feature to prism.el: parens can be colorized distinctly from other text, so they can be, e.g. faded out into the background (or made to stand out more, if you like).
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Practical questions from a lisp beginner
There is paren-face-mode that can dim the parentheses, especially useful until your mind gets used to lisps.
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Lisp as an Alternative to Java
In a similar idea, you can also make them less visible, so indentation strikes more: https://github.com/tarsius/paren-face/
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Are Rainbow Parens helpful or distracting for beginners?
I like paren-face mode more. Reduce the contrast on the parens a bit so they're still visible but less prominent and it makes it easier to focus on the indentation, which is usually a better at-a-glance indicator of scope and intent. I ended up liking this setup so much that I eventually set it to dim [] {} and (), and to do it for all languages, not just lisps.
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If the number of arguments to a function is known, can the parentheses be implicit?
If you are using emacs, you might find paren-face-mode useful
emacs-noob
Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs-noob.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-24.
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Code editor with autocomplete or suggestion?
Emacs works reasonably fine. Here's a branch that intends to provide the more familiar key bindings.
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Installed SBCL. Install Emacs. Installed slime. but not able to get it working
PS: I do have an emacs-noob/slime-company that might come handy. This shouldn't depend on anything specific to the OS. (Check the different branches to see which suits the OP/reader's needs!)
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Practical questions from a lisp beginner
(Shameless plug) I'm maintaining a (still quite experimental because I don't personally use it) emacs-noob for people new to emacs but not wanting any long term relation with emacs, or want to focus on learning common lisp first and emacs second. You might find slime-company or slime-company-modern branches useful if this fits your use case.
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Emacs configuration for VS Code users
I attempted emacs-noob/emacs-modern for some of my teammates for developing with common-lisp. It's still very much a new and untested thing though.
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Is there a Lisp IDE I can install on windows?
But if emacs becomes too-difficult-too-soon in most part due to key-bindings (definitely worth learning for life!), I recently had a try at digikar99/emacs-noob/slime-company-modern for some of my friends, which packs "familiar" key-bindings, but does require a separate installation of a compiler.
- emacs-noob: A curated emacs set up intended to decrease the learning curve
- emacs-noob at slime-company-modern
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Sublime / VSCode like key bindings for emacs
I suspect I'm not going to find enough time to maintain a full-fledged VSCode key-bound. I've put up something primitive at digikar99/slime-company-modern and digikar99/emacs-modern.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing paren-face and emacs-noob you can also consider the following projects:
rainbow-identifiers - Rainbow identifier highlighting for Emacs
rainbow-delimiters - Emacs rainbow delimiters mode
rainbow-blocks - block syntax highlighting in emacs
awesome-cl - A curated list of awesome Common Lisp frameworks, libraries and other shiny stuff.
evil-leader - <leader> key for evil
aggressive-indent-mode - Emacs minor mode that keeps your code always indented. More reliable than electric-indent-mode.
prism.el - Disperse Lisp forms (and other languages) into a spectrum of colors by depth
emacs-for-vimmers - Introduction Emacs config, for developers used to Vim.
paren-face vs rainbow-identifiers
emacs-noob vs rainbow-delimiters
paren-face vs rainbow-delimiters
emacs-noob vs rainbow-blocks
paren-face vs awesome-cl
emacs-noob vs evil-leader
paren-face vs rainbow-blocks
emacs-noob vs aggressive-indent-mode
paren-face vs aggressive-indent-mode
emacs-noob vs awesome-cl
paren-face vs prism.el
emacs-noob vs emacs-for-vimmers