[plt-scheme] Highlighting parentheses.

Oh, good point!

I'm not color-blind ... as far as I know ... but it is pretty hard for
me to see, too.

Robby

On Nov 30, 2007 2:01 PM, Brent Fulgham <bfulg at pacbell.net> wrote:
> For the color-blind among us, the "spring" version is impossible to see!  :-)
>
> Of course, that just means I wouldn't use it, but there's no reason others couldn't enjoy it.
>
> -Brent
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu>
> To: PLT Scheme Mailing List <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:40:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] Highlighting parentheses.
>
>
>
> Two more, seasonal varieties:
>
>    http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~robby/tmp/fall-parens.png
>    http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~robby/tmp/spring-parens.png
>
> (spring needs work).
>
> Robby
>
> On Nov 30, 2007 11:11 AM, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> > Well, I couldn't resist (altho I probably should have). I've added
> > this feature to DrScheme, but have currently checked a version to SVN
> > that has it disabled.
> >
> > Here are two screenshots, showing possibilities:
> >
> >   http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~robby/tmp/gray-parens.png
> >   http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~robby/tmp/blue-parens.png
> >
> > If you are interested and use SVN, please look at the bottom
> > of plt/collects/framework/private/color.ss, around like 754. There
>  you
> > will see some code that builds a vector of  colors. DrScheme will use
> > the colors in the vector to highlight the different depths of nested
> > sexps, stopping with the last color when the depth is larger than the
> > number of colors in the vector. (Thus, when the vector only contains
>  a
> > single color, you get the current behavior.)
> > Attached are two examples (those are the two commented out vectors in
> > the source code).
> >
> > If people supply a few nice looking vectors, I'll turn this choice
> >
> > into a preference for future versions of DrScheme.
> > Robby
> >
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