paren-face
A face dedicated to lisp parentheses (by tarsius)
rainbow-identifiers
Rainbow identifier highlighting for Emacs (by Fanael)
| paren-face | rainbow-identifiers | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 3 | |
| 155 | 135 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.4 | 0.0 | |
| 26 days ago | over 9 years ago | |
| Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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
rainbow-identifiers
Posts with mentions or reviews of rainbow-identifiers.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-24.
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Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages
> Giving the same hue to names that look like each other.
Emacs' 'Rainbow Identifiers' does that. I like it.
https://github.com/Fanael/rainbow-identifiers -
Best syntax highlighting package
I am currently using rainbow identifiers, but I am wondering if there is another package that is better.
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Practical questions from a lisp beginner
For something fancy, there's also rainbow-blocks and rainbow-identifiers
What are some alternatives?
When comparing paren-face and rainbow-identifiers you can also consider the following projects:
emacs-noob - A curated emacs set up intended to decrease the learning curve
rainbow-delimiters - Emacs rainbow delimiters mode
tree-hugger - A light-weight, extendable, high level, universal code parser built on top of tree-sitter
awesome-cl - A curated list of awesome Common Lisp frameworks, libraries and other shiny stuff.
aggressive-indent-mode - Emacs minor mode that keeps your code always indented. More reliable than electric-indent-mode.
rainbow-blocks - block syntax highlighting in emacs
sixten - Functional programming with fewer indirections
prism.el - Disperse Lisp forms (and other languages) into a spectrum of colors by depth
rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs
paren-face vs emacs-noob
rainbow-identifiers vs rainbow-delimiters
paren-face vs rainbow-delimiters
rainbow-identifiers vs tree-hugger
paren-face vs awesome-cl
rainbow-identifiers vs aggressive-indent-mode
paren-face vs rainbow-blocks
rainbow-identifiers vs rainbow-blocks
paren-face vs aggressive-indent-mode
rainbow-identifiers vs sixten
paren-face vs prism.el
rainbow-identifiers vs rust-analyzer