rainbow-identifiers vs atom-focus-mode

rainbow-identifiers

Rainbow identifier highlighting for Emacs (by Fanael)

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atom-focus-mode

Atom editor extension - fades editor content and highlights only the lines you are working on (by davidleghorn)

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rainbow-identifiers		atom-focus-mode
	Project
3	Mentions	1
135	Stars	18
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	10.0
over 9 years ago	Latest Commit	about 6 years ago
Emacs Lisp	Language	CoffeeScript
-	License	MIT License

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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.

Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2021
> 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
1 project | /r/spacemacs | 17 Jul 2021

I am currently using rainbow identifiers, but I am wondering if there is another package that is better.
Practical questions from a lisp beginner
7 projects | /r/lisp | 11 Jun 2021

For something fancy, there's also rainbow-blocks and rainbow-identifiers

atom-focus-mode

Posts with mentions or reviews of atom-focus-mode. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-24.

Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2021

I recall that as well, my guess would be Sublime Text. Ah, it might have been this plugin for Atom, I was using that for a while:
https://github.com/davidleghorn/atom-focus-mode

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rainbow-identifiers and atom-focus-mode you can also consider the following projects:

rainbow-delimiters - Emacs rainbow delimiters mode

tree-hugger - A light-weight, extendable, high level, universal code parser built on top of tree-sitter

sixten - Functional programming with fewer indirections

aggressive-indent-mode - Emacs minor mode that keeps your code always indented. More reliable than electric-indent-mode.

wordwarvi - Word War vi is a retro-styled old school side scrolling shooter reminiscent of Defender or Scramble, with an "Emacs vs. vi" theme. See: http://smcameron.github.io/wordwarvi/

paren-face - A face dedicated to lisp parentheses

rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs [Moved to: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer]

rainbow-blocks - block syntax highlighting in emacs

sublime-scheme-alabaster - Minimalist color scheme for Sublime Text 3

vscode-theme-alabaster-dark - Dark version of alabaster ported from https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster