[climacs-devel] highlight expression region in cursor

[Alok]

On 7/9/06, Troels Henriksen <athas at sigkill.dk> wrote:
> Alok <alok.bisani+climacs-devel at gmail.com> writes:
> > 1. Is it possible in Climacs to highlight the current Lisp expression
> > (in the region of the cursor position) with a slightly different
> > background shade?
> >
> > 2. Further, is it also possible to show the current nested Lisp
> > expression with a slightly progressive difference in background shade,
> > with each increasing nesting level of the expression displayed in an
> > increased shade of the background colour?
>
> No, not out-of-the-box, but no 1. should be pretty trivial to hack
> up. No 2. will be slightly more difficult to do properly, though. I'll
> take a swing at it once I get access to a Lisp system.

Some one replied on the Google groups thread with this for Emacs, its
pretty close to what I wanted.
http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/color-box.png

Maybe I would reduce the shade difference from the inner most deeper
shade from the lighter outer shade to a few. This would allow the few
inner most nested s-expressions to not look out of the world.

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> \  Troels "Athas"
> /\ Henriksen
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