Re: Colour Capital Letters

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

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On Thursday, October 19th, 2023 at 6:58 AM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:


> 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...
 
Do not have a working one yet.  I wanted to start with something quite 
simple first.  But I was planning to get subsequent words colored differently.

The purpose was about readability, particularly for Latex where one cannot use 
underscore '_'.

> Best,
> 
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://mbork.pl