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RE: rainbow-mode
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: rainbow-mode |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:39:47 -0800 |
> > I'm not quite sure what you mean to say here. Is it "this
> > is something that so many people want in Emacs that it's
> > been partially reimplemented half a dozen times"?
>
> 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.
YRW. Or you are inventing. What "half-implemented" modes are you talking
about? What do either of you think has been "partially reimplemented"? What
discussion and conclusions are you talking about?
None of the libraries I mentioned (hexrgb.el, palette.el, doremi.el) have been
discussed here for inclusion in Emacs. They are not half-implemented, and
they've been in use for years.
And none of them reimplement anything. hexrgb.el and rainbow-mode.el both use
standard HSV/RGB conversion formulas. That's all they have in common. Using a
standard conversion formula, whether inches to centimeters or RGB to HSV, is not
"partially reimplementing" anything.
* hexrgb.el is a general-purpose library for color hex code conversion. It is
used by several other libraries (including DoReMi and Palette and 4 other
libraries I wrote) to do just that.
* rainbow-mode.el is a library for showing color names/codes using the color as
background. That is one specific use of color.
Similarly, DoReMi, Palette, and rainbow-mode all have different uses. Yes, you
can use any of them to see what a color's hex code looks like. But that is not
what they are about. None of them "partially reimplements" another.
I mentioned DoReMi and Palette in the context of Lars's description of
attempting to tweak colors the hard way ("try #404090, *save*, *reload*, 'no,
darker', etc."). The point was that there are "WYSIWYG ways to incrementally
adjust colors".
- RE: rainbow-mode (was: ELPA policy), (continued)
- 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, 2010/11/16
- 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 <=
- 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
- elpa.gnu.org repository sync with Emacs (was: rainbow-mode), Ted Zlatanov, 2010/11/16
- Re: elpa.gnu.org repository sync with Emacs, Chong Yidong, 2010/11/16
- Re: elpa.gnu.org repository sync with Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/11/16
- Re: elpa.gnu.org repository sync with Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2010/11/16