Re: [PATCH] Add rainbow-mode

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

2010/7/30 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:44:50 -0700 "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> > 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/
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> 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?

I do not think rainbow-mode has all the functionality in
css-color-mode (but I only glanced at rainbow-mode so I am not quite
sure). Are you really sure of this?

> I'd like to see it become part of Emacs; it would be useful to me and
> probably many others.
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> Ted
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