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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Colour Capital Letters
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:58:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cnjsqoe.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <TMhrmPp4yavyN9kzLLPNuWFwbzuwbcLp-NFUzYbzu9A9Mm6sW9j9zcMgQynAgCm8Gs0CayII9iGrHCr8_jmRgi9dThEs2N4JwgnO773j1Kc=@protonmail.com>


On 2023-10-02, at 03:58, Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

> I want to make a stand alone function that uses a different colour for capital letters 
> in CamelCase names. Possibly taking code from glasses.el.
>
> (defun color-camelcase-capital-letters ()
>   "Color capital letters in CamelCase variables."
>   (interactive)
>   (highlight-regexp "\\(?:^\\|\\b\\)[[:upper:]][[:lower:]]*" 'hi-yellow))

Just saw this while looking through my email backlog.  This is a great
idea, but I think it can be made even better.  How about using two
colors so that subsequent /words/ in CamelCase identifiers are colored
differently?  I suspect this could be great for readibility!

> What can I do ?

Do you have any working code?  I might be tempted to try to write
something like this...

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-18 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-02  1:58 Colour Capital Letters Heime
2023-10-02 10:28 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-10-18 18:58 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2023-10-18 19:40   ` Heime
2023-10-25 18:30     ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-11-14 19:59       ` Marcin Borkowski
2024-03-31  1:21         ` Heime

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