From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: random color of variables in programming languages
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:06:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txefid7c.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8911.1386765750.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> writes:
> Hi all, anyone knows about an Emacs extension so that
> in different programming languages (e.g., C/C++)
> variables are assigned a different random color like
> KDevelop does?
I don't know. That seems like a cool idea though. Then
you would see (i.e., not read) all the occurrences of
that variable at once. However I don't know how it
would work in practice. Perhaps you would just get
dizzy. With lots of parameters, perhaps it is better to
have them a uniform color, to make a really clear
separation what is data and what is metadata,
branching, etc.
If you were to put it up, I wouldn't recommend random
colors, instead you could use the variable *name* (the
letters) as function input to be mapped to colors: the
first letter - the ASCII position, "normalized" - could
be red, the second - same for green - etc.
First step if you were to do this would be to examine
how colors are setup to begin with. Instead of the
static color, you would hook a defun to calculate the
color based on the variable name.
--
Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu
underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
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2013-12-11 16:06 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2013-12-12 15:21 ` random color of variables in programming languages Luca Ferrari
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2013-12-12 21:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-20 1:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-23 14:51 ` Luca Ferrari
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2013-12-24 19:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-11 12:42 Luca Ferrari
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