Re: rainbow-mode

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:50:25 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> 
wrote: 

LMI> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>> Plus Chong Yidong explained in this thread and in
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/127873/focus=128245

LMI> I've read the thread.  There was discussion, Julien added stuff to
LMI> rainbow-mode as suggested, and then Chong said "I've added rainbow-mode
LMI> to the Emacs 24 package repository.", and that ended the discussion.
LMI> Is that an unfair summation of that thread?

He also said he would add the others if proposed, meaning (I think) none
of them were ready.  I simply added rainbow-mode.el from the package
repository at that point because it was enough for me.

>> 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.

LMI> I agree 100%.

If the maintainers agree too, I'll work with Julien to make this
happen.

Ted