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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

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Post by jackowayed »

jrockway wrote: post #39
iheartmemcache wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even simpler, just open a scratch buffer, paste the code, and evaluate the expressions with C-x C-e.

I am talking about how to, given some code in an arbitrary language and you wanting to change the color of some construct, do that with built-in emacs mechanisms. I think going to a web page, pasting your code, tweaking, and then putting some random lisp back into emacs is a waste of effort when Emacs already has this functionality built in.

It's a nice tip, and it could be nice for just changing one or 2 colors, but for totally doing a theme from scratch, I think I'd prefer a color wheel to messing with color hexes.

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

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Post by gn »

pogos wrote: post #12
yanowitz wrote: post #10

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.

I second yanowitz: this is wicked cool, thank you very much; it would be even more awesome than it already is if we had a choice of language. Do you think you could find the time to include Javascript and sh?

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

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Post by rbanffy »

Insanely cool. Thanks.

Some suggestions:

I would prefer a triangle-in-a-color-wheel arrangement for the color picker.

One nice addition too would be a complementary color generator with the same saturation-luminance.

Another would be having the #rrggbb color so it could be easily copied and pasted between settings.

But swill, as it is, it's awesome. Thank you very much!

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

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Post by docgnome »

melling wrote: post #26
mixmax wrote: post #22

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It fits emacs very well in that regard.

These icons look pretty straight forward. http://aquamacs.org/ There is a nice File, Edit... menu that goes along with it. Close your eyes and pretend the rest of the complexity doesn't exist and it will be no different than using Notepad, etc. When you want more, open your eyes a little.

I would strongly recommend against using aquamacs as it uses non-standard config locations which can be a giant headache. It writes saved configs into the ~/Library folder verses .emacs and it's very easy to create conflicting configs where .emacs is overridden. They may have fixed this, but that's how it behaved the last time I used it. This also seems to be the general consensus in #emacs on freenode. I'd recommend using Carbon Emacs on OS X instead. http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html

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

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Post by docgnome »

This is really cool! I'd second, third, whatever, the call for an import. It would also be neat if it was pluggable so when someone writes an emacs extension with custom faces, they could write a little snippet file to plugin to this to make those faces available.
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