rainbow-blocks
block syntax highlighting in emacs (by istib)
rainbow-identifiers
Rainbow identifier highlighting for Emacs (by Fanael)
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| rainbow-blocks | rainbow-identifiers | |
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| 6 | 3 | |
| 122 | 135 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 3 years 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.
rainbow-blocks
Posts with mentions or reviews of rainbow-blocks.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-15.
- Colorize blocks of LISP
- How do i make rainbow-blocks not override default font-lock styling?
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Setting Up Emacs for Lisp (SBCL)
About tools: This and this can be useful.
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Practical questions from a lisp beginner
For something fancy, there's also rainbow-blocks and rainbow-identifiers
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Code in Boxes, Why only restrict ourselves to colors?
There's a package for Emacs that has a similar idea: https://github.com/istib/rainbow-blocks
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Blocks Courtesy of Konrad Zuse
Emacs has rainbow-delimiters and rainbow-blocks (and show-paren).
https://github.com/istib/rainbow-blocks
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 rainbow-blocks and rainbow-identifiers you can also consider the following projects:
aggressive-indent-mode - Emacs minor mode that keeps your code always indented. More reliable than electric-indent-mode.
rainbow-delimiters - Emacs rainbow delimiters mode
tree-hugger - A light-weight, extendable, high level, universal code parser built on top of tree-sitter
emacs-noob - A curated emacs set up intended to decrease the learning curve
fiveam-asdf - ASDF plug-in for defining test systems based on the FiveAM test library
paren-face - A face dedicated to lisp parentheses
sixten - Functional programming with fewer indirections
sly - Sylvester the Cat's Common Lisp IDE
rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs
rainbow-blocks vs aggressive-indent-mode
rainbow-identifiers vs rainbow-delimiters
rainbow-blocks vs rainbow-delimiters
rainbow-identifiers vs tree-hugger
rainbow-blocks vs emacs-noob
rainbow-identifiers vs aggressive-indent-mode
rainbow-blocks vs fiveam-asdf
rainbow-identifiers vs paren-face
rainbow-blocks vs paren-face
rainbow-identifiers vs sixten
rainbow-blocks vs sly
rainbow-identifiers vs rust-analyzer