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Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator

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Re: Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator

#12

This is so crazy cool I can't believe it. Thanks for making it so much easier to quickly play with my config. Nice to haves: 1. select your language sample (ruby, lisp, c++, etc.) 2. paste in an existing config and have it load that to start with But regardless, great tool. Many thanks!

#1 is already on my todo list

#2 is a great idea! I think I'll try to implement it, thank you.

Re: Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator

#13

Which versions of Emacs will the generated configs work under? (Emacs vs XEmacs, etc?) Thanks!

XEmacs is considered pretty dead at this point. Very few people bother to make new (or old) elisp programs XEmacs compatible these days.

And I'm hoping you're not one of the remaining 20 XEmacs users :)

Re: Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator

#14
It would be really cool if you indicated what parts of the file you're editing at the moment. Maybe like underlining all of them? I know you could just change it to some crazy color and see what changes, but then if you want it right back where it was, you can never get it perfectly back.

Also, I second the request for being able to paste in a config to base it off of (mostly so that if I make a config, then decide I love it except for 1 or 2 things but want to use your editor instead of messing with the color codes, I can use your editor to tweak it).

It's awesome as it is, though. Nice work :)

Re: Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator

#18

It would be really cool if you indicated what parts of the file you're editing at the moment. Maybe like underlining all of them? I know you could just change it to some crazy color and see what changes, but then if you want it right back where it was, you can never get it perfectly back. Also, I second the request for being able to paste in a config to base it off of (mostly so that if I make a config, then decide I…

Visual Studio has a sidebar that's grey for untouched lines. On lines that you edit, this sidebar turns yellow, and it turns green when you save and red for errors.

Re: Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator

#19

It would be really cool if you indicated what parts of the file you're editing at the moment. Maybe like underlining all of them? I know you could just change it to some crazy color and see what changes, but then if you want it right back where it was, you can never get it perfectly back. Also, I second the request for being able to paste in a config to base it off of (mostly so that if I make a config, then decide I…

Visual Studio has a sidebar that's grey for untouched lines. On lines that you edit, this sidebar turns yellow, and it turns green when you save and red for errors.

Yeah, I thought about something like that (assuming I know what you mean), but since this is about parts of lines, not lines, I thought underlining would work better (especially since basically every line has keywords).

It's still a little difficult to indicate the minibuffer background, the frame border, etc, but I think those names are a little more obvious, and there's fewer of them.

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