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rainbow-delimiters
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Y'all deserve a medal or something
I'm a big fan of rainbow-delimiters, available on Melpa.
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Template Engine Minor Modes?
rainbow-delimiters ( https://github.com/Fanael/rainbow-delimiters/ ) does this for parenthesis/braces etc but is somewhat bound to the syntax tree of whatever major mode is currently in use, it also scans on a per-character basis, where I'd need to scan for regex.
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Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages
> Lighting up the active scopes
As you had guessed a little later, there are a few different emacs packages that do this. One of them is "rainbow parentheses" that gives every bracket a different colour (remember that emacs supports lisp, so differentiating between lots of different parentheses is arguably more useful in emacs than any other editor). [0].
Another one is highlight parentheses [1] which highlights all parens that enclose the cursor position, and gives a darker colour to those "further away" from the cursor.
[0] https://github.com/Fanael/rainbow-delimiters
[1] https://sr.ht/~tsdh/highlight-parentheses.el/
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How We Made Bracket Pair Colorization 10,000x Faster
This article is especially interesting to me, as it shows how VS Code still doesn't have the "Emacs nature". Even though I'm a 30-year Emacs user, I do hesitate to recommend it to younger programmers because it's so alien, and VS Code has one of the essential characteristics of Emacs: the extension language and the implementation language are the same. But this article is a great example of how it doesn't — extensions are limited to using an extension API, rather than having full access to the application's internals. Maybe a good thing, if you're a mass-market product worried about malicious extensions. But I'll note that [rainbow-delimiters-mode](https://github.com/Fanael/rainbow-delimiters/) dates back to 2010, and has never noticeably slowed down loading or display of source files, even in languages with lots of delimiters like Lisp.
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Practical questions from a lisp beginner
Using highlight-parentheses-mode, which is an additional package, helps. There are also show-paren-mode (build in) and rainbow-delimiters (additional package), whose could help there.
- Humanoid themes updated with many new faces, fixes and color adjustments; constructive feedback welcome!
rainbow-blocks
- 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
What are some alternatives?
Bracket-Pair-Colorizer-2 - Bracket Colorizer Extension for VSCode
aggressive-indent-mode - Emacs minor mode that keeps your code always indented. More reliable than electric-indent-mode.
nvim-ts-rainbow - Rainbow parentheses for neovim using tree-sitter. Use https://sr.ht/~p00f/nvim-ts-rainbow instead
emacs-noob - A curated emacs set up intended to decrease the learning curve
vscode-extension-samples - Sample code illustrating the VS Code extension API.
fiveam-asdf - ASDF plug-in for defining test systems based on the FiveAM test library
rainbow-identifiers - Rainbow identifier highlighting for Emacs
emacs-humanoid-themes - Light and dark theme with bright colors for Emacs that supports GUI and terminal
paren-face - A face dedicated to lisp parentheses
atom-focus-mode - Atom editor extension - fades editor content and highlights only the lines you are working on
sly - Sylvester the Cat's Common Lisp IDE