From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add rainbow-mode
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:46:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hk9gjhp.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AANLkTi=PpLKRhxQKhib1xY9ZgUsw8Hoc8hCGCZkZO_Tw@mail.gmail.com
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:11:16 +0200 Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
LB> 2010/7/30 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
>> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:44:50 -0700 "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> > I'm glad to present rainbow-mode. This is a minor mode that
>>>> > displays color names with colored background.
>>>>
>>>> There is (since two years) a minor mode, css-color-mode in
>>>> css-color.el written by Niels Giesen...
>>>> See http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nxhtml/nxhtml/main/files/head:/util/
>>
DA> See also: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HexColour.
>>
>> I looked at all of them and rainbow-mode seems to be a superset of their
>> functionality (except for highlighting "blue" in blue, for instance).
>> It's definitely more configurable and smarter about the major mode. The
>> name may have to change so it's clearer what it does: visual-color.el,
>> perhaps?
LB> I do not think rainbow-mode has all the functionality in
LB> css-color-mode (but I only glanced at rainbow-mode so I am not quite
LB> sure). Are you really sure of this?
I agree it doesn't have all the CSS-specific functionality. Is there
something specific you need?
rainbow-mode.el is more generally useful and can support the
CSS-specific code, whereas css-color-mode.el can't support tex-mode for
instance. So my vote is still for rainbow-mode.el.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-02 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-27 12:50 [PATCH] Add rainbow-mode Julien Danjou
2010-07-27 13:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-27 13:44 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-30 17:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-30 22:11 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-30 22:59 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-07-30 23:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-31 0:39 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-08-02 14:46 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-08-02 16:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-08-02 16:49 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-08-04 8:05 ` Niels Giesen
2010-08-04 14:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-08-04 15:17 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-09 8:47 ` Julien Danjou
2010-08-10 14:00 ` Julien Danjou
2010-08-10 15:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-08-10 16:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-08-10 18:06 ` Julien Danjou
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