svg-tag-mode VS svg-lib

Compare svg-tag-mode vs svg-lib and see what are their differences.

svg-tag-mode

A minor mode for Emacs that replace keywords with nice SVG labels (by rougier)

svg-lib

Emacs SVG libraries for creatings tags, icons and bars (by rougier)
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svg-tag-mode

Posts with mentions or reviews of svg-tag-mode. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-28.
  • how to parse a svg-file in elisp?
    1 project | /r/emacs | 16 Jan 2023
    That is a module that let's you replace occurances of regexes with svgs (https://github.com/rougier/svg-tag-mode)
  • A minimal customization that I can borrow
    11 projects | /r/emacs | 28 Jun 2022
    https://github.com/rougier/svg-tag-mode is one ingredient, which makes org documents look more fancy.
  • Possible to add visual indicator above characters
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 28 May 2022
  • svg-lib icons in org files
    3 projects | /r/orgmode | 17 May 2022
    You're looking for svg-tag-mode. It's on ELPA and MELPA, so you should be able to just use-package one of those (don't forget to package-refresh-contents).
  • What is then name of this theme?
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Apr 2022
    tag looks like from https://github.com/rougier/svg-tag-mode/tree/07640c97a1dcc305010a384fffdaa7788c342da7
  • Apple Mac Studio
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2022
    I agree, that's a really great example. It would be even more natural for tags in org-mode, which already supports drawing tags away from the text itself to a far-right column, but they really could be moved in the other direction to the left of a hairline next to the bullets, and they'd be more readable.

    BTW, Nicolas has a lot of interesting packages exploring use of graphical design elements in Emacs apart from the Nano Emacs stuff; for example, there's https://github.com/rougier/svg-tag-mode. I love how he chooses to represent dates and dates with times attached, and to distinguish active vs. inactive dates with shading rather than "[" and "<". That actually makes it easier to spot a common org-mode mistake without having to call up the agenda.

  • svg-tag-mode (v 0.3.1) is now on ELPA
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 29 Dec 2021
    It's here: https://github.com/rougier/svg-tag-mode/blob/main/examples/example-2.el (just evaluate the whole buffer)
  • Replace some key words by svg icons?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 27 Nov 2021
    Specifically this is the one: https://github.com/rougier/svg-tag-mode
  • Mu4e look and feel
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 26 Apr 2021

svg-lib

Posts with mentions or reviews of svg-lib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-21.
  • Emacs-Appindicator - create and control tray icons with Elisp!
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 21 Feb 2023
    You can hide/show icons, labels, create context menus with lisp callbacks for each menu item. The library uses svg-lib so you can use icons from various online collections supported by it. Under the hood it has tiny daemon, written in C that interacts with system tray via libappindicator. So, at least for now, the only supported OS is Linux.
  • Initial Thoughts On A New Productivity Tool
    5 projects | /r/lisp | 2 Jan 2023
    Yes, he also uses svg to render a canvas and images. You can also check work by Rougier (/u/nicolas-rougier), he usually anounces his stuff in /r/emacs. He has done a lot with svg, check his svg-lib and svg-icons.
  • Package to display org headings spatially?
    7 projects | /r/orgmode | 30 Dec 2022
    Isn't a "pile" just an "unorganized map"? Really, if you think of it: a pile of papers on a desk, could as well sitt in a folder. That should bring you back to normal desktop paradigm. Now implementing headings as "folders" shouldn't be overly difficult. You could implement a "pile" of headings as just subheadings to top headings and also render those top headings as either: svg icons, check for example svg-library by /u/Nicolas-Rougier, or you could use font-icons like in font-awesome or all-the-icons, to replace top-headings with an image or a font-icon. You would probably have to write your own minor-mode but it shouldn't be very difficult. You will probably need to use invisible-text property to hide headings and replace them with icons (that is normally how org and outline modes "fold" and "expand" content in headings), but that should not be very difficult.
  • Rounded UI corners and shadows?
    1 project | /r/emacs | 20 Nov 2022
    the most basic UI changes you can do is by configuring faces (i recommend you take a look at the whole Controlling the Display section of the manual). going a bit beyond that, you can also take a look at the Widget Library as well for buttons, links, checkboxes and some other stuff. and there is also some packages and hacks by the community to display SVGs. see this reddit post and also some of Nicolas Rougier's work, more specifically his SVG lib.
  • Cross-platform graphics
    1 project | /r/emacs | 30 Sep 2022
    You could, at least in theory, do lots of GUI stuff in Emacs itself already with SVG (org PNGs). See for example svg-lib by N. Rougier for doing stuff like buttons, toolbars and some other gui elements. You can do pop-up menus with child frames.
  • procress: A simple emacs package to indicate progress of a process in the modeline (for example AUCTeX processes)
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 15 Jul 2022
    At the moment undetermined progress is what's supported out-of-the-box. Determined progress can be supported easily enough if svg-lib is used to create the progress bar.
  • Why not use Obsidian and/or Logseq instead of OrgRoam?
    9 projects | /r/OrgRoam | 18 May 2022
    Oh, I understood now what you mean. I think Emacs is definitely capable of doing this (https://github.com/rougier/svg-lib), but I don't think there's a plugin which has already done it :/.
  • svg-lib icons in org files
    3 projects | /r/orgmode | 17 May 2022
    i saw this repository and i want to use thoses icons in my org files, but i don't have much experience with emacs-lisp and neither org-mode (sorry for being a newbie). i tried to append (require 'svg-lib) and also i donwloaded the repository and before did it before requiring the module (i'm not sure if this is the right name)
  • Blamer.el 0.4 has been released. Added popup git blame messages with border and rounded corners
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 19 Feb 2022
    Have you considered/tried doing something with svg-lib?
  • svg-tag-mode (v 0.3.1) is now on ELPA
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 29 Dec 2021
    Can you open an issue on https://github.com/rougier/svg-lib (with screenshots)? I'm trying to fix the tag for any kind of font ant that would help.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing svg-tag-mode and svg-lib you can also consider the following projects:

nano-emacs - GNU Emacs / N Λ N O - Emacs made simple

neovide - No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust

emacs-dashboard - An extensible emacs dashboard

mu4e-dashboard - A dashboard for mu4e (mu for emacs)

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

emacs-parchment-theme

emacs-ng - A new approach to Emacs - Including TypeScript, Threading, Async I/O, and WebRender.

emacs-application-framework - EAF, an extensible framework that revolutionizes the graphical capabilities of Emacs

ement.el - A Matrix client for GNU Emacs

auto-complete - Emacs auto-complete package

mu4e-thread-folding - Functions for folding threads in mu4e headers view