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Re: rainbow-mode
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: rainbow-mode |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:44:35 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:22:09 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
wrote:
LMI> To get back to the example at hand, rainbow-mode, it's something that I
LMI> would use, and the repeated reimplementation of the same functionality
LMI> shows that it's something that other people would use, too. That's my
LMI> argument for including it in Emacs. What are the counter-arguments?
Discussion is archived here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/127873
You saw some of the arguments:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> > IIRC, the most recent discussion concluded that none of the half-
> > implemented modes is good enough, especially given the nice features
> > in the other half-implemented modes, and nobody stepped up to the
> > plate to merge them, document the result, and make sure the result
> > conforms to coding standards etc.
Plus Chong Yidong explained in this thread and in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/127873/focus=128245
Basically none of the authors wanted to merge their mode with the
others. Julien added enough to rainbow-mode.el to make it the best
choice but it's still not superior to css-color-mode.el in every way.
FWIW my vote is still for rainbow-mode.el as follows: I think it's most
useful in its current form out of all the contenders. I would put it in
the core Emacs because editing CSS and HTML (plus other languages with
inlined colors) is so common. The color transformation functions it has
are generally useful. I would also give it first-class customization
variables so it's really easy to turn it on. Finally, it's pretty
unlikely to undergo big changes at this point.
Maybe it could get renamed, I don't care too much. The current name is
quite memorable though.
Ted
- Re: ELPA policy, (continued)
- Re: ELPA policy, Chong Yidong, 2010/11/15
- Re: ELPA policy, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/15
- Re: ELPA policy, Chong Yidong, 2010/11/15
- rainbow-mode (was: ELPA policy), Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/15
- RE: rainbow-mode (was: ELPA policy), Drew Adams, 2010/11/15
- Re: rainbow-mode, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/15
- Re: rainbow-mode, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/11/16
- Re: rainbow-mode, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/16
- Re: rainbow-mode, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/11/16
- Re: rainbow-mode, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/16
- Re: rainbow-mode,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: rainbow-mode, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/16
- Re: rainbow-mode, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/11/16
- Re: rainbow-mode, Julien Danjou, 2010/11/16
- RE: rainbow-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/11/16
- RE: rainbow-mode, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/11/16
- Re: rainbow-mode, Chong Yidong, 2010/11/15
- Re: rainbow-mode, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/15
- Re: rainbow-mode, Glenn Morris, 2010/11/15
- Re: rainbow-mode, Chong Yidong, 2010/11/15
- Re: rainbow-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2010/11/16