Re: [ELPA] New package: beacon

[Artur Malabarba]

On 16 Oct 2015 2:11 pm, "Phillip Lord" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Artur Malabarba <address@hidden> writes:
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> > 2015-10-15 18:24 GMT+01:00 Kaushal Modi <address@hidden>:
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> >> I haven't read either of the source codes, but is it similar to lisp/cedet/pulse.el?
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> > Hm, I don't know. I'll look into what that does. Maybe it could have
> > saved me some implementation effort. :)
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> I used pulse.el when I wrote eval-pulse.el and it's quite nice for the
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> But then I discovered eval-sexp-fu and realised that I've wasted my time
> writing eval-pulse.
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> Having some commonality for these visual distratctions kind of mode
> would be good -- it should allow configuration once.

Yeah, I had a look at pulse and there's definitely some common ground. Beacon is really a user package, while pulse is more of a dependency lib.

I want to merge some of beacon's internals into pulse, so that beacon could just a small extension on top of pulse, but that's not trivial. Their internal logic is quite different, both in structure and in final outcome (pulse fades a single color overlay by changing a font's background, while beacon shrinks a multi-colour highlight by moving/deleting many overlays).